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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Pervasive Retardation
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
2. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Z-Scores
Cultural Deficit Theories
Elaborative Encoding
Invincibility Fallacy
3. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Pedagogy
Sensory Register
Receptive Language Disorders
Mental Retardation
4. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Direct instruction
Mnemonic Devices
Type-R Conditioning
Retroactive Interference
5. 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.
Transfer of Information
Difficulty of the Task
Confidence Interval
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
6. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Language Experience Strategy
Static Assessment Approach
Classification
Working or Short-Term Memory
7. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Confidence Interval
Identity Achievement
Formative Evaluation
Mastery Grading Scales
8. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Psychometrics
Pedagogy
Whole Language Approach
Cultural Deficit Theories
9. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Epilepsy
Percentile Scores
Tracking
Deficiency Needs
10. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Deficiency Needs
Perception
11. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Epilepsy
Synthetic Intelligence
Generative learning
12. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Psychometrics
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Instructional Objectives
Face Validity
13. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Receptive Language Disorders
Group Consequences
Attention
Contingency Contracting
14. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Schemata
Socioeconomic Status
Assertive Discipline
Achievement Motivation
15. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Synthesized Modeling
Heuristics
Advance Organizer
Performance Grading Scales
16. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Language Experience Strategy
Achievement Tests
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
17. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Deficiency Needs
Babbling
Taxonomy
Critical pedagogy
18. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Gifted and Talented Children
Portfolio
Foreclosure
Derived Score
19. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Postconventional Morality
Analytical Intelligence
At-Risk Students
20. 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.
Luck
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Synthetic Intelligence
Critical pedagogy
21. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Method of Loci
Motivation
Premack Principle
Criterion-Related Validity
22. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Confidence Interval
Automaticity
Conservation
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
23. 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 -
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Clustering
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Questioning Techniques
24. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Learning Disability
Operant Behavior
Face Validity
25. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Class Inclusion
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Transformation
Confidence Interval
26. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Critical pedagogy
Transfer of Information
Public Law 94-142
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
27. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Socioeconomic Status
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Syntax
28. The sensory register for visual information.
Method of Loci
Proactive Interference
Iconic Storage Register
Simple Moral Education Programs
29. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Direct Modeling
Internal Locus of Control
Analytical Intelligence
Jigsaw II
30. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Cooing
Respondent Behavior
Content Validity
31. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Subschemata
Gender Role
Synthetic Intelligence
32. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Personal Fable
Episodic Memory
Syntax
Cultural Differences Theories
33. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Hyperactivity
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Pervasive Retardation
Identity Achievement
34. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Practical Intelligence
Comparative Advance Organizers
Foreclosure
Dynamic Assessment Approach
35. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Pervasive Retardation
36. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Transformation
Working-Backward Strategy
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
37. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Clustering
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Instructional Objectives
38. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Educational Goals
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Dyslexia
Real Self-Efficacy
39. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Learned Helplessness
Direct instruction
Norm Group
Models (Observational Learning)
40. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Learning Disability
Real Self-Efficacy
Psychometrics
Functional Fixedness
41. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Behavior Disorders
Confidence Interval
Self-Efficacy
Tracking
42. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Expository Teaching
attrition
Simple Moral Education Programs
Analogies
43. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Jigsaw II
Engaged Time
Morphemes
Pivotal Response Therapy
44. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
IDEAL Strategy
Cooing
Algorithm
Pivotal Response Therapy
45. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Triarchic Theory
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Engaged Time
Dyslexia
46. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Method of Loci
Self-Efficacy
Assertive Discipline
Metacognition
47. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Normal Distribution
Gender Role
Psychometrics
48. 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.
Portfolio
Response-Cost System
Socioeconomic Status
Gender Bias
49. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Mastery Grading Scales
Effort
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
50. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Assertive Discipline
Identity
Tracking
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)