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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Reading
Working or Short-Term Memory
Educational Goals
Visual Impairment
2. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Semantics
Severe and Profound Retardation
Self-Determination Theory
3. 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 -
Seriation
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Subschemata
Models (Instruction)
4. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Instructional Objectives
Phonemes
Allocated Time
Functional Fixedness
5. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Hearing Impairment
Motivation
Limited Retardation
Intermittent Retardation
6. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Mastery Learning
Demonstrations
Classification
Time-Out
7. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Intermittent Retardation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Synthetic Intelligence
8. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Effort
Internalization
Extrinsic Motivation
Decay
9. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Respondent Behavior
Forgetting
Transitional Bilingual Programs
10. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Practical Intelligence
Decay
Descriptive Statistics
Feedback Loop
11. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Visual Impairment
Class Inclusion
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
12. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Withitness
Performance Grading Scales
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
General (or High-Road) Transfer
13. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Preconventional Morality
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Behavioral Theory
Social Cognition
14. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Data-Driven Models
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Semantic Memory
Performance Grading Scales
15. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Syntax
Method of Loci
Absolute Grading Standards
16. 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
Operant Behavior
Personal Fable
Analytical Intelligence
17. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Expository Teaching
Social Inferences
Elaborative Encoding
18. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Epilepsy
Anxiety Disorders
Chunking
Learning Disabilities
19. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Feedback Loop
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Subschemata
20. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Jigsaw II
Normal Distribution
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
21. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Real Self-Efficacy
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Transitivity
22. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Community-Based Education Programs
Primary Reinforcer
Inclusion
Mastery Learning
23. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Type-R Conditioning
Tracking
Summative Evaluation
Academic Learning Time
24. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Transitivity
Retrieval
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
25. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Epilepsy
Questioning Techniques
Internalization
Performance-Based Test Strategies
26. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mild Retardation
Elaboration
Moderate Retardation
Community-Based Education Programs
27. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Questioning Techniques
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Class Inclusion
Maturation
28. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Reading
Seriation
29. 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
Group Consequences
Predictive Validity
Self-Regulation
30. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Acronym
Observational Learning
Aptitude Tests
Receptive Language Disorders
31. 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.
Identity Diffusion
Intermittent Retardation
Chunking
Invincibility Fallacy
32. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Identity Achievement
Reading
Test-Retest Reliability
Observational Learning
33. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Guided Discovery
Token Economy
Instructional Theory
Primary Reinforcer
34. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Reinforcer
Iconic Storage Register
Secondary Reinforcer
Sensory Register
35. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Achievement Tests
Cultural Differences Theories
Character Education Programs
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
36. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Phonics Approach
Expressive Disorders
Retroactive Interference
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
37. 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.
Foreclosure
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Mild Retardation
38. 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
Specific Learning Outcomes
Achievement Test Battery
Two-Store Model
Models (Instruction)
39. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Working-Backward Strategy
Extensive Retardation
Cultural Deficit Theories
40. 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.
Long-Term Memory
Effort
Intrinsic Motivation
Achievement Test Battery
41. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Active teaching
Object-Relations Theory
Code Emphasis Strategy
Epilepsy
42. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Encoding
Psychomotor Objectives
Educational Psychology
Seriation
43. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Derived Score
Working-Backward Strategy
44. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Predictive Validity
Feedback Loop
Academic Learning Time
Gifted and Talented Children
45. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Models (Observational Learning)
Retroactive Interference
Enrichment Programs
Reinforcer
46. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Iconic Storage Register
Social Inferences
Descriptive Statistics
Community-Based Education Programs
47. 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.
Difficulty of the Task
Language Experience Strategy
Semantic Memory
Episodic Memory
48. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Z-Scores
Character Education Programs
Brainstorming
Criterion-Related Validity
49. 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
Primary Reinforcer
Public Law 94-142
Content Validity
Generative learning
50. 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.
Z-Scores
Critical pedagogy
Social Cognition
Reading