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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Critical pedagogy
Reading
Exceptional Learners
2. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Epilepsy
Reversibility
Expected Outcomes
Dynamic Assessment Approach
3. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Mastery Grading Scales
Response-Cost System
Epilepsy
Dyslexia
4. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Chunking
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Group Training Experiences
Pedagogy
5. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Reinforcer
Cognitive Objectives
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
6. 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.
Semantics
Behavior Disorders
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Inclusion
7. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Extensive Retardation
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Data-Driven Models
8. 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.
Gender Role
IDEAL Strategy
Formative Evaluation
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
9. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Psychometrics
Conditioning
Heuristics
10. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Inattention
Taxonomy
Simple Moral Education Programs
Algorithm
11. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Voice Disorders
Character
12. Relating current information with previous learning.
Language System
Analogies
Self-Regulation
Acronym
13. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Fluency Disorders
Articulation Difficulties
Means-Ends Analysis
General Objectives
14. The use of physical punishment.
Babbling
Self-Efficacy
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Corporal Punishment
15. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Derived Score
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Educational Goals
Pragmatics
16. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Educational Psychology
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Hearing Impairment
Premack Principle
17. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Tracking
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Luck
Elaborative Encoding
18. 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.
Cognitive Objectives
Operant Behavior
Student Team Achievement Decisions
General (or High-Road) Transfer
19. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Taxonomy
Exceptional Learners
Test-Retest Reliability
Invincibility Fallacy
20. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Test Bias
Constructivism
Guided Discovery
Cooperative Learning
21. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Behavioral Theory
Centration
Elaboration
Socioeconomic Status
22. Those one observes.
Jigsaw II
Engaged Time
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Models (Observational Learning)
23. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Extensive Retardation
Achievement Test Battery
Group Consequences
Descriptive Statistics
24. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
General Exploratory Activities
Mental Retardation
Perception
Aptitude Tests
25. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Syntax
Cooing
Primary Reinforcer
Affective Objectives
26. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Object-Relations Theory
27. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Allocated Time
Specific Learning Outcomes
Moratorium
Taxonomy
28. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int
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29. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Phonemes
Behavioral Theory
Attribution Theory
Conventional Morality
30. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Extrinsic Motivation
Self-Determination Theory
Models (Instruction)
31. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Retroactive Interference
Type-S Conditioning
Social Learning and Expectancy
32. 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
Standard Error of Estimate
Dyslexia
Teaching Efficacy
33. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Phonology
Community-Based Education Programs
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Postconventional Morality
34. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Subschemata
T-Scores
Postconventional Morality
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
35. 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.
Long-Term Memory
Identity
Inclusion
Self-Efficacy
36. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Pragmatics
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Criterion-Referenced Testing
37. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Enrichment Programs
Instruction
Reinforcer
38. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Object-Relations Theory
Type-R Conditioning
Direct instruction
Law of Effect
39. 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
Brainstorming
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Social Inferences
Triarchic Theory
40. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Expository Advance Organizers
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Dynamic Assessment Approach
41. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Voice Disorders
Maturation
General Exploratory Activities
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
42. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Response-Cost System
Test-Retest Reliability
Syntax
43. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Tracking
Withitness
Rehearsal
Absolute Grading Standards
44. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Cooing
Critical pedagogy
Direct instruction
Phonics Approach
45. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Constructivism
Mastery Grading Scales
Academic Learning Time
Expository Advance Organizers
46. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Echoic Storage Register
Social Learning and Expectancy
Acronym
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
47. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Response Set
Gender Identity
Accelerated Programs
48. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Instructional Theory
Gender Identity
Communication
Internal Locus of Control
49. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Subschemata
Models (Observational Learning)
Validity
50. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Gender Bias
Difficulty of the Task
Proactive Interference
Standard Error of Estimate