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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Automaticity
Metacognition
Character Education Programs
Perceived Self-Efficacy
2. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Real Self-Efficacy
Perception
Mild Retardation
Active teaching
3. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Episodic Memory
Concurrent Validity
Tracking
Moderate Retardation
4. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Human Needs Theory
Law of Effect
Extrinsic Motivation
Moderate Retardation
5. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Echoic Storage Register
Class Inclusion
Communication
Self-Efficacy
6. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Identity
Babbling
Forgetting
Pragmatics
7. 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.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Luck
8. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Fluency Disorders
Socioeconomic Status
Retrieval
Postconventional Morality
9. The sensory register for visual information.
Constructivism
Expected Outcomes
Iconic Storage Register
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
10. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Triarchic Theory
Response-Cost System
Achievement Motivation
Enrichment Programs
11. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Development
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Comparative Advance Organizers
Keyword
12. 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).
Heuristics
Pivotal Response Therapy
Conventional Morality
Absolute Grading Standards
13. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Behavior Disorders
Educational Goals
General Objectives
Psychometrics
14. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Premack Principle
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Community-Based Education Programs
15. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Self-Regulation
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Group Consequences
16. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Class Inclusion
Automaticity
Achievement Test Battery
17. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Portfolio
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Vicarious Learning
18. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Articulation Difficulties
Retroactive Interference
Portfolio
Moratorium
19. 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.
Generalized Reinforcer
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Procedural Memory
Mnemonic Devices
20. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Models (Instruction)
Internalization
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Mild Retardation
21. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Reinforcer
Formative Evaluation
Algorithm
Two-sigma problem
22. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Gender Identity
Learned Helplessness
Psychomotor Objectives
Procedural Memory
23. 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.
Inner Speech
Centration
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Criterion-Related Validity
24. 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.
Cooperative Learning
Specific Learning Outcomes
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Educational Goals
25. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Dyslexia
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Percentile Scores
Cultural Differences Theories
26. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Sensory Register
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Behavior Disorders
Socioeconomic Status
27. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Comparative Advance Organizers
Learning Disabilities
Norm Group
28. 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.
Automaticity
Critical pedagogy
Expository Advance Organizers
Encoding
29. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Generative learning
Psychometrics
Normal Distribution
Social Cognition
30. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Reversibility
Difficulty of the Task
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Attention
31. 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.
Contingency Contracting
Scheduled Time
Premack Principle
Elaborative Encoding
32. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Shaping
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Self-Regulation
Criterion-Related Validity
33. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Models (Observational Learning)
Norm Group
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
34. 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.
Achievement Tests
Identity Diffusion
Accelerated Programs
Character
35. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Effort
Data-Driven Models
Development
Psychometrics
36. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Brainstorming
Limited Retardation
Organization
37. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Observational Learning
Primary Reinforcer
Normal Distribution
Learning Disabilities
38. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Exhibition
Severe and Profound Retardation
Withitness
Gender Identity
39. 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.
Class Inclusion
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Symbolic Modeling
Ability
40. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Impulsivity
Demonstrations
Attention
Language Experience Strategy
41. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Behavior Disorders
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Active teaching
42. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Synthetic Intelligence
Conditioning
Scheduled Time
Exceptional Learners
43. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
IDEAL Strategy
Feedback Loop
Gifted and Talented Children
Data-Driven Models
44. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Academic Learning Time
Identity Diffusion
Seriation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
45. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Mental Retardation
Achievement Tests
attrition
46. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Phonemes
Two-Store Model
Vicarious Learning
Observational Learning
47. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Educational Goals
Object-Relations Theory
Engaged Time
Analytical Intelligence
48. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Withitness
Working or Short-Term Memory
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Gender Role
49. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Contingency Contracting
Reliability
Active teaching
Means-Ends Analysis
50. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Mnemonic Devices
Internal Locus of Control
Epilepsy
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
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