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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Educational Psychology
Performance Grading Scales
Assertive Discipline
Maturation
2. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Subschemata
Reading
Analogies
Decay
3. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Character Education Programs
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
4. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Decay
Voice Disorders
Algorithm
Moratorium
5. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Time-Out
Receptive Language Disorders
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Character
6. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Conditioning
Shaping
Engaged Time
Chunking
7. 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.
Inclusion
Psychometrics
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Method of Loci
8. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Perception
General Objectives
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
9. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
External Locus of Control
Mild Retardation
Impulsivity
Working-Backward Strategy
10. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Cooperative Learning
Critical pedagogy
Retrieval
Postconventional Morality
11. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Babbling
Sensory Register
Code Emphasis Strategy
Type-S Conditioning
12. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Educational Goals
Response-Cost System
Derived Score
Morphemes
13. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Morphemes
Dual Coding Hypothesis
14. 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).
Transfer of Information
Working-Backward Strategy
Shaping
Norm Group
15. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Expository Teaching
Learned Helplessness
Cognitive Objectives
Voice Disorders
16. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Growth Needs
Epilepsy
Primary Reinforcer
Summative Evaluation
17. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Impulsivity
Percentile Scores
Advance Organizer
Norm Group
18. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Engaged Time
Maturation
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
External Locus of Control
19. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Transfer of Information
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Extrinsic Motivation
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 stable and external to the student.
Token Economy
Self-Determination Theory
Development
Difficulty of the Task
21. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Mental Retardation
Growth Needs
Token Economy
Synthesized Modeling
22. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Group Consequences
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Moratorium
Dual Coding Hypothesis
23. The total length of the class.
Instructional Objectives
Scheduled Time
Elaboration
Proactive Interference
24. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Reversibility
Construct Validity
25. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Tracking
Triarchic Theory
Self-Determination Theory
Two-Store Model
26. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Inclusion
Jigsaw II
Human Needs Theory
Impulsivity
27. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Type-R Conditioning
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Educational Goals
28. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Task Analysis
Analogies
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Planned Ignoring
29. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Cultural Deficit Theories
Academic Learning Time
Planned Ignoring
30. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Transfer of Information
Achievement Tests
Self-Efficacy
Cultural Differences Theories
31. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Educational Psychology
Generative learning
Teaching Efficacy
Automaticity
32. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Metacognition
Algorithm
Internalization
Reversibility
33. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Severe and Profound Retardation
Group Consequences
Content Validity
Deficiency Needs
34. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Preconventional Morality
Syntax
Educational Psychology
Confidence Interval
35. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Percentile Scores
Social Inferences
Expository Advance Organizers
36. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Proactive Interference
Dyslexia
Cooperative Learning
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
37. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Reversibility
Language Experience Strategy
Phonemes
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
38. 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.
Algorithm
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Shaping
Comparative Advance Organizers
39. 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.
Engaged Time
Invincibility Fallacy
Criterion-Referenced Testing
General (or High-Road) Transfer
40. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Morphemes
Withitness
Intrinsic Motivation
Reciprocal Determinism
41. 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
Derived Score
Test Bias
Generative learning
Advance Organizer
42. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Social Cognition
Jigsaw II
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Public Law 94-142
43. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Inclusion
Specific Learning Outcomes
Accelerated Programs
Feedback Loop
44. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Organization
Accelerated Programs
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
45. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Self-Regulation
Limited Retardation
Achievement Tests
Mastery Grading Scales
46. 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.
Instructional Objectives
Luck
Advance Organizer
Conditioning
47. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Engaged Time
Synthesized Modeling
Static Assessment Approach
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
48. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
At-Risk Students
Mental Retardation
Behavioral Theory
Respondent Behavior
49. 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.
Invincibility Fallacy
Response Set
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Contingency Contracting
50. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Achievement Test Battery
Sensory Register