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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Dyslexia
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Transfer of Information
Educational Goals
2. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Educational Psychology
Transformation
Self-Regulation
Gifted and Talented Children
3. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Forgetting
Generative learning
Normal Distribution
4. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Type-R Conditioning
Withitness
Cooperative Learning
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
5. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Expository Teaching
Forgetting
Schemata
Teaching Efficacy
6. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Vicarious Learning
Assertive Discipline
Direct instruction
Achievement Tests
7. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Exhibition
Response Set
Public Law 94-142
Self-Regulation
8. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Teaching Efficacy
Performance Grading Scales
Learning Disability
Predictive Validity
9. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
Identity Diffusion
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Two-sigma problem
10. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Synthesized Modeling
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Summative Evaluation
Long-Term Memory
11. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Secondary Reinforcer
Achievement Test Battery
Babbling
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
12. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Clustering
Decay
Direct Modeling
13. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Learning Disability
Concept-Driven Models
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Internal Locus of Control
14. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Test Bias
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Pragmatics
Code Emphasis Strategy
15. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Mental Retardation
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Stability
Moderate Retardation
16. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Acronym
Cultural Differences Theories
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Symbolic Modeling
17. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Practical Intelligence
Withitness
Validity
Semantic Memory
18. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Pedagogy
Affective Objectives
Articulation Difficulties
Derived Score
19. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is stable and intrinsic to the student.
Ability
Achievement Motivation
Social Cognition
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
20. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Derived Score
Inclusion
Pivotal Response Therapy
Active teaching
21. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Communication
Algorithm
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Problem Solving
22. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Mnemonic Devices
Test-Retest Reliability
Hearing Impairment
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
23. The sensory register for auditory information.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Syntax
Planned Ignoring
Echoic Storage Register
24. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is unstable and external to the student.
Performance Grading Scales
Luck
Test Bias
Engaged Time
25. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Criterion-Related Validity
Invincibility Fallacy
Behavior Disorders
26. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Demonstrations
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Impulsivity
Contingency Contracting
27. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Method of Loci
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Stability
Sensory Register
28. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Conventional Morality
Retrieval
Holophrastic Speech
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
29. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Iconic Storage Register
Jigsaw II
Generative learning
Perceived Self-Efficacy
30. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Instructional Objectives
Gifted and Talented Children
Automaticity
Criterion-Referenced Testing
31. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Direct instruction
Rehearsal
Active teaching
Affective Objectives
32. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Expressive Disorders
Language System
Carroll's Model of School Learning
33. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Conservation
Summative Evaluation
Voice Disorders
Holophrastic Speech
34. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Contingency Contracting
Static Assessment Approach
Vicarious Learning
Steiner-Waldorf Education
35. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Expressive Disorders
Psychometrics
36. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Mastery Learning
Problem Solving
Reciprocal Determinism
Response-Cost System
37. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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38. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Achievement Test Battery
Long-Term Memory
Maturation
Attribution Theory
39. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Triarchic Theory
Hearing Impairment
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Identity Achievement
40. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Self-Determination Theory
Deficiency Needs
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Conventional Morality
41. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.
Normal Distribution
Episodic Memory
Long-Term Memory
Growth Needs
42. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Reciprocal Teaching
Educational Goals
Holophrastic Speech
Proactive Interference
43. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Reinforcer
Development
Cognitive Objectives
Direct instruction
44. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Active teaching
Reversibility
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
45. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Development
Problem Solving
Mnemonic Devices
Cognitive Objectives
46. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Self-Determination Theory
Portfolio
Encoding
Code Emphasis Strategy
47. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Jigsaw II
Learned Helplessness
Method of Loci
48. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Group Consequences
Holophrastic Speech
Reciprocal Teaching
Foreclosure
49. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Transitivity
Hearing Impairment
Method of Loci
Retrieval
50. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Community-Based Education Programs
Mental Retardation
Corporal Punishment
Student Team Achievement Decisions
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