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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Self-Efficacy
Time-Out
Psychometrics
2. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Mild Retardation
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Automaticity
3. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Stability
Cultural Deficit Theories
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Algorithm
4. 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.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Working-Backward Strategy
Self-Efficacy
Critical pedagogy
5. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Phonemes
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Responsibility
Cultural Differences Theories
6. 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.
Scheduled Time
Limited Retardation
Predictive Validity
Student Team Achievement Decisions
7. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Cultural Differences Theories
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Expository Advance Organizers
8. 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
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Foreclosure
Transformation
9. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Normal Distribution
Inattention
Mild Retardation
10. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Percentile Scores
Proactive Interference
Difficulty of the Task
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
11. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Epilepsy
Achievement Test Battery
Jigsaw II
12. 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.
Schemata
Accelerated Programs
Social Learning and Expectancy
Inclusion
13. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Learning Disabilities
Algorithm
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
14. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Jigsaw II
Inattention
Standard Error of Estimate
15. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Symbolic Modeling
IDEAL Strategy
Aptitude Tests
Identity Achievement
16. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Type-S Conditioning
Inclusion
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Moratorium
17. 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
Triarchic Theory
Gender Identity
Social Learning and Expectancy
Two-Store Model
18. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Luck
Conditioning
Self-Regulation
Heuristics
19. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Test-Retest Reliability
Visual Impairment
Exceptional Learners
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
20. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Identity Achievement
Iconic Storage Register
Articulation Difficulties
21. Relating current information with previous learning.
Class Inclusion
Analogies
Law of Effect
Method of Loci
22. 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).
Conservation
Pragmatics
Extensive Retardation
Conventional Morality
23. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Type-R Conditioning
Real Self-Efficacy
Token Economy
24. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Type-S Conditioning
Voice Disorders
Reversibility
Norm Group
25. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Classification
Academic Learning Time
Cooperative Learning
26. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
attrition
Classification
Chunking
Epilepsy
27. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hyperactivity
Proactive Interference
Hearing Impairment
Maturation
28. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Concept-Driven Models
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Classification
Inclusion
29. 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.
Anxiety Disorders
Task Analysis
Episodic Memory
Encoding
30. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Law of Effect
Elaborative Encoding
Expository Teaching
Communication
31. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Reversibility
Response-Cost System
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
32. 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
Self-Efficacy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Synthetic Intelligence
Identity
33. 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.
Conservation
Aptitude Tests
Scheduled Time
Chunking
34. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Brainstorming
Derived Score
Elaboration
Jigsaw II
35. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Psychometrics
Stability
Corporal Punishment
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
36. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Centration
Articulation Difficulties
Extensive Retardation
Transitivity
37. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Construct Validity
Conventional Morality
Internal Locus of Control
Percentile Scores
38. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Active teaching
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Academic Learning Time
Behavior Disorders
39. 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
Motivation
Moderate Retardation
Triarchic Theory
Planned Ignoring
40. The study of how students learn and develop.
Educational Psychology
Proactive Interference
Mnemonic Devices
Normal Distribution
41. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Organization
Mastery Learning
Ability
Impulsivity
42. 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
Construct Validity
Visual Impairment
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
43. 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
Test Bias
Simple Moral Education Programs
Working or Short-Term Memory
Extensive Retardation
44. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Static Assessment Approach
IDEAL Strategy
Mastery Learning
Mastery Grading Scales
45. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Identity
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Identity Achievement
Portfolio
46. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Self-Efficacy
Gender Identity
Pervasive Retardation
External Locus of Control
47. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Hearing Impairment
Semantic Memory
48. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Generalized Reinforcer
Secondary Reinforcer
Gender Bias
Type-S Conditioning
49. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Moderate Retardation
Rehearsal
Articulation Difficulties
Social Inferences
50. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Self-Efficacy
Responsibility
Mental Retardation