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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The study of how students learn and develop.
Perception
Hearing Impairment
Identity Achievement
Educational Psychology
2. 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 -
Active teaching
Guided Discovery
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
3. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Taxonomy
Data-Driven Models
Extensive Retardation
Retroactive Interference
4. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Behavioral Theory
Formative Evaluation
Primary Reinforcer
Whole Language Approach
5. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Phonology
Limited Retardation
Acronym
Construct Validity
6. 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.
Predictive Validity
Socioeconomic Status
Test-Retest Reliability
Analogies
7. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Method of Loci
Reliability
Development
Type-R Conditioning
8. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Cooperative Learning
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Class Inclusion
9. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Metacognition
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Semantic Memory
Summative Evaluation
10. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Encoding
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Affective Objectives
11. The sensory register for visual information.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Iconic Storage Register
Keyword
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
12. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Z-Scores
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Synthesized Modeling
Semantic Memory
13. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Keyword
Test Bias
Impulsivity
Type-S Conditioning
14. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Advance Organizer
Models (Instruction)
Encoding
Automaticity
15. How capable one actually is.
Mental Retardation
Real Self-Efficacy
Premack Principle
Phonology
16. 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.
Intrinsic Motivation
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
17. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Automaticity
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Conservation
18. 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.
Premack Principle
Content Validity
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
19. 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).
Identity
Subschemata
Conventional Morality
Visual Impairment
20. Those one observes.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Motivation
Sensory Register
Models (Observational Learning)
21. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Functional Fixedness
Maturation
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Token Economy
22. 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
Observational Learning
Self-Efficacy
Content Validity
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
23. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Mastery Learning
Derived Score
Expected Outcomes
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
24. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Aptitude Tests
Gender Role
Predictive Validity
Generative learning
25. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Syntax
Gender Bias
Public Law 94-142
Simple Moral Education Programs
26. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Conditioning
Response-Cost System
Proactive Interference
Syntax
27. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Face Validity
IDEAL Strategy
Heuristics
Gender Bias
28. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Concurrent Validity
General Exploratory Activities
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Retrieval
29. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Motivation
Direct instruction
Social Cognition
Seriation
30. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Elaboration
Learned Helplessness
Critical pedagogy
31. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Type-S Conditioning
Working-Backward Strategy
Aptitude Tests
Instructional Objectives
32. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Transfer of Information
Proactive Interference
Cooing
33. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Growth Needs
Metacognition
Expressive Disorders
Gifted and Talented Children
34. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Epilepsy
Functional Fixedness
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Episodic Memory
35. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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36. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Instructional Theory
Withitness
Active teaching
At-Risk Students
37. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Foreclosure
Gender Bias
Cultural Deficit Theories
At-Risk Students
38. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Working or Short-Term Memory
Impulsivity
Working-Backward Strategy
39. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Means-Ends Analysis
Learned Helplessness
Psychomotor Objectives
Shaping
40. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Internalization
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Predictive Validity
Luck
41. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Identity Diffusion
Withitness
Mental Retardation
Data-Driven Models
42. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Decay
Long-Term Memory
Limited Retardation
Enrichment Programs
43. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Extrinsic Motivation
External Locus of Control
Character Education Programs
Language System
44. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Articulation Difficulties
Social Learning and Expectancy
Tracking
Socioeconomic Status
45. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Type-R Conditioning
Extensive Retardation
Two-sigma problem
Practical Intelligence
46. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Behavioral Theory
Epilepsy
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
47. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Public Law 94-142
Assertive Discipline
Invincibility Fallacy
Character
48. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Stability
Functional Fixedness
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Decay
49. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Critical pedagogy
Active teaching
Achievement Tests
50. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Z-Scores
Anxiety Disorders
Comparative Advance Organizers
Respondent Behavior
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