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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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
Performance Grading Scales
Triarchic Theory
Scheduled Time
Teaching Efficacy
2. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Behavioral Theory
General Exploratory Activities
Type-S Conditioning
Extrinsic Motivation
3. 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
Syntax
Extrinsic Motivation
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Self-Efficacy
4. 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.
Learned Helplessness
Response Set
Self-Regulation
Mental Retardation
5. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Taxonomy
Instructional Theory
Procedural Memory
Student Team Achievement Decisions
6. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Feedback Loop
Impulsivity
7. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Two-sigma problem
Articulation Difficulties
Difficulty of the Task
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
8. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Mnemonic Devices
Difficulty of the Task
Instruction
Synthesized Modeling
9. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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10. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Limited Retardation
Social Learning and Expectancy
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
11. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Epilepsy
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Severe and Profound Retardation
12. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Expressive Disorders
Accelerated Programs
Syntax
Vicarious Learning
13. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Performance Grading Scales
Transfer of Information
Descriptive Statistics
Norm Group
14. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Hyperactivity
Growth Needs
Organization
15. 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
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Functional Fixedness
Simple Moral Education Programs
16. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Triarchic Theory
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Community-Based Education Programs
Attention
17. 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
Moratorium
Semantic Memory
Normal Distribution
18. The sensory register for auditory information.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Motivation
Heuristics
Echoic Storage Register
19. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Voice Disorders
Class Inclusion
Group Consequences
Critical pedagogy
20. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Hearing Impairment
Identity Diffusion
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Socioeconomic Status
21. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Law of Effect
Severe and Profound Retardation
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Exceptional Learners
22. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Social Learning and Expectancy
Schemata
23. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Iconic Storage Register
Instructional Objectives
Dyslexia
Reciprocal Determinism
24. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Holophrastic Speech
Norm Group
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Effort
25. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Self-Regulation
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Inner Speech
Clustering
26. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Sensory Register
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Internalization
Syntax
27. 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
Analogies
Working or Short-Term Memory
Direct Modeling
Psychomotor Objectives
28. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Procedural Memory
Social Inferences
Specific Learning Outcomes
29. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Expected Outcomes
Learned Helplessness
Models (Observational Learning)
Retrieval
30. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Language Experience Strategy
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
31. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Rehearsal
Gifted and Talented Children
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Visual Impairment
32. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Portfolio
Decay
Content Validity
Comparative Advance Organizers
33. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Echoic Storage Register
Practical Intelligence
Foreclosure
Corporal Punishment
34. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Inattention
Means-Ends Analysis
Test Bias
Law of Effect
35. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Planned Ignoring
Reinforcer
Validity
Working or Short-Term Memory
36. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Communication
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Problem Solving
Behavior Disorders
37. 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.
Learning Disabilities
Instructional Theory
Hearing Impairment
Expected Outcomes
38. 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.
Brainstorming
Taxonomy
Community-Based Education Programs
Classification
39. 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.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Teaching Efficacy
40. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Epilepsy
Articulation Difficulties
Subschemata
41. 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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42. 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.
Keyword
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Educational Psychology
Time-Out
43. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Planned Ignoring
Babbling
At-Risk Students
Identity Achievement
44. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Response-Cost System
Type-R Conditioning
Carroll's Model of School Learning
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
45. 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
Operant Behavior
Concept-Driven Models
Responsibility
Steiner-Waldorf Education
46. The study of how students learn and develop.
Behavior Disorders
Impulsivity
Educational Psychology
Proactive Interference
47. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Inclusion
Concept-Driven Models
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Descriptive Grading Scales
48. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Language System
Learning Disabilities
Achievement Test Battery
Descriptive Grading Scales
49. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Elaborative Encoding
Epilepsy
Symbolic Modeling
50. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Derived Score
Code Emphasis Strategy
Morphemes
Forgetting