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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Mnemonic Devices
Simple Moral Education Programs
Gender Role
Retrieval
2. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Validity
Premack Principle
Classification
Heuristics
3. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Accelerated Programs
Task Analysis
Working-Backward Strategy
Learning Disability
4. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Performance Grading Scales
Type-S Conditioning
Object-Relations Theory
Conservation
5. The sensory register for visual information.
Instruction
Iconic Storage Register
Demonstrations
Student Team Achievement Decisions
6. 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.
Expressive Disorders
Reciprocal Determinism
Withitness
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
7. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Phonology
Reading
Generative learning
Contingency Contracting
8. The study of the meaning behind words.
Operant Behavior
Semantics
Symbolic Modeling
Chunking
9. 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.
Articulation Difficulties
Contingency Contracting
Descriptive Statistics
Achievement Tests
10. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Voice Disorders
Procedural Memory
Real Self-Efficacy
11. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Time-Out
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Growth Needs
12. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Character
Severe and Profound Retardation
Affective Objectives
Centration
13. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Effort
Advance Organizer
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Summative Evaluation
14. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Concurrent Validity
Subschemata
attrition
15. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Mastery Grading Scales
Elaboration
Morphemes
Norm-Referenced Testing
16. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Method of Loci
Group Training Experiences
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
17. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
General Objectives
Social Cognition
Organization
Synthetic Intelligence
18. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Algorithm
Gender Role
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Cultural Differences Theories
19. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Means-Ends Analysis
Questioning Techniques
Episodic Memory
Holophrastic Speech
20. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Content Validity
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Morphemes
Expository Advance Organizers
21. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Echoic Storage Register
Hearing Impairment
Inattention
Instruction
22. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Keyword
Human Needs Theory
Psychometrics
Character
23. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Problem Solving
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
24. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Exceptional Learners
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Shaping
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
25. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Token Economy
Comparative Advance Organizers
Withitness
26. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Stability
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Problem Solving
Communication
27. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Law of Effect
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Retroactive Interference
Construct Validity
28. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Limited Retardation
Self-Regulation
Confidence Interval
29. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Validity
Descriptive Statistics
Dyslexia
Pedagogy
30. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Summative Evaluation
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
31. The total length of the class.
Gender Bias
Direct instruction
Scheduled Time
Active teaching
32. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Generative learning
Withitness
Behavioral Theory
Questioning Techniques
33. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Growth Needs
Syntax
Language System
Object-Relations Theory
34. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Retrieval
Constructivism
Transitivity
Episodic Memory
35. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Public Law 94-142
Expository Teaching
Learning Disability
Inner Speech
36. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Descriptive Grading Scales
Deficiency Needs
Triarchic Theory
Withitness
37. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Time-Out
Keyword
Guided Discovery
Encoding
38. 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 external to the student.
Advance Organizer
Difficulty of the Task
Transfer of Information
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
39. How capable one actually is.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Foreclosure
Self-Determination Theory
Real Self-Efficacy
40. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Seriation
Instruction
Learning Disabilities
Time-Out
41. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Internal Locus of Control
T-Scores
Intermittent Retardation
Expository Teaching
42. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Analytical Intelligence
Voice Disorders
Normal Distribution
Constructivism
43. Internalized self-talk.
Proactive Interference
Inclusion
Inner Speech
Performance-Based Test Strategies
44. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Construct Validity
Responsibility
Observational Learning
Gender Bias
45. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Enrichment Programs
Internalization
Elaboration
46. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Responsibility
Heuristics
Problem Solving
Descriptive Grading Scales
47. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Anxiety Disorders
Accelerated Programs
Two-Store Model
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
48. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Behavioral Theory
Advance Organizer
49. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Decay
Real Self-Efficacy
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
50. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Self-Efficacy
Growth Needs
Generalized Reinforcer
Extrinsic Motivation
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