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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Communication
Mental Retardation
Stability
2. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Conventional Morality
Instructional Objectives
Code Emphasis Strategy
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
3. 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.
Reciprocal Determinism
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Achievement Motivation
Phonemes
4. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Morphemes
Learned Helplessness
Mastery Grading Scales
5. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Affective Objectives
Task Analysis
Episodic Memory
6. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Identity Diffusion
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Attribution Theory
Feedback Loop
7. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Accelerated Programs
Planned Ignoring
Gender Bias
Feedback Loop
8. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Severe and Profound Retardation
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Transformation
Mastery Grading Scales
9. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
IDEAL Strategy
Heuristics
Self-Efficacy
Algorithm
10. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Instructional Theory
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Teaching Efficacy
General Objectives
11. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Enrichment Programs
Semantic Memory
Code Emphasis Strategy
Sensory Register
12. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Socioeconomic Status
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Difficulty of the Task
Elaborative Encoding
13. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Internalization
Conservation
Inattention
Babbling
14. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Hyperactivity
Social Cognition
Mnemonic Devices
15. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Taxonomy
Means-Ends Analysis
Simple Moral Education Programs
Code Emphasis Strategy
16. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Procedural Memory
Algorithm
Means-Ends Analysis
17. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Dyslexia
Class Inclusion
Withitness
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
18. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Character Education Programs
Concurrent Validity
Taxonomy
Derived Score
19. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Shaping
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Rehearsal
Working-Backward Strategy
20. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Postconventional Morality
Exhibition
Individual and Small-Group Activities
21. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Summative Evaluation
Normal Distribution
Phonology
Algorithm
22. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
IDEAL Strategy
Phonemes
Synthesized Modeling
Time-Out
23. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Decay
Subschemata
Educational Goals
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
24. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Summative Evaluation
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Ability
25. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Direct Modeling
Test Bias
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
26. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Communication
Cognitive Objectives
Extensive Retardation
27. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Cultural Differences Theories
Phonics Approach
Behavior Disorders
28. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Conservation
Symbolic Modeling
Behavior Disorders
Generative learning
29. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mild Retardation
Teaching Efficacy
Clustering
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
30. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Generalized Reinforcer
Premack Principle
Identity
Behavioral Theory
31. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Extrinsic Motivation
IDEAL Strategy
Learning Disabilities
Mastery Learning
32. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Metacognition
Elaborative Encoding
Vicarious Learning
Conventional Morality
33. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Responsibility
Subschemata
Episodic Memory
34. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Models (Observational Learning)
Absolute Grading Standards
Pedagogy
Attention
35. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Construct Validity
Proactive Interference
Expressive Disorders
36. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Extensive Retardation
Code Emphasis Strategy
Expository Advance Organizers
37. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Analogies
Intermittent Retardation
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
38. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Task Analysis
Schemata
Direct Modeling
39. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Concurrent Validity
Psychometrics
Phonics Approach
Norm-Referenced Testing
40. The study of how students learn and develop.
Internal Locus of Control
Educational Psychology
Gifted and Talented Children
Enrichment Programs
41. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Maturation
Hearing Impairment
Synthesized Modeling
Episodic Memory
42. 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
Attention
Psychomotor Objectives
Instructional Theory
43. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Attention
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
44. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Conventional Morality
Inclusion
Retrieval
Working or Short-Term Memory
45. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Self-Regulation
Cooing
Guided Discovery
Moderate Retardation
46. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Foreclosure
Luck
Expected Outcomes
Transitivity
47. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Communication
Identity Diffusion
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
48. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Elaboration
Achievement Motivation
Reinforcer
Community-Based Education Programs
49. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Formative Evaluation
Symbolic Modeling
Concept-Driven Models
Content Validity
50. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Learning Disability
Centration
Reciprocal Teaching
Mastery Grading Scales