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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Conventional Morality
Code Emphasis Strategy
Advance Organizer
Transitivity
2. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Direct Modeling
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Direct instruction
Conditioning
3. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Symbolic Modeling
Working-Backward Strategy
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Gender Bias
4. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Impulsivity
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Comparative Advance Organizers
Static Assessment Approach
5. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Hearing Impairment
6. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Comparative Advance Organizers
Echoic Storage Register
Absolute Grading Standards
7. 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.
Demonstrations
Identity Diffusion
Engaged Time
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
8. The study of the meaning behind words.
Personal Fable
Language System
Decay
Semantics
9. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Two-Store Model
Character
Demonstrations
Static Assessment Approach
10. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Preconventional Morality
Reinforcer
Mnemonic Devices
Vicarious Learning
11. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Sensory Register
Internal Locus of Control
attrition
12. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Schemata
Expository Advance Organizers
Portfolio
Premack Principle
13. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Vicarious Learning
Reciprocal Teaching
Functional Fixedness
14. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Two-Store Model
Descriptive Statistics
Seriation
Foreclosure
15. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Stability
Growth Needs
16. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Attribution Theory
Critical pedagogy
Seriation
Criterion-Related Validity
17. 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.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Encoding
Performance Grading Scales
Epilepsy
18. 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.
Rehearsal
Hyperactivity
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Receptive Language Disorders
19. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Problem Solving
Postconventional Morality
Direct instruction
Ability
20. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Models (Observational Learning)
Morphemes
Epilepsy
21. 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 external to the student.
Taxonomy
Achievement Motivation
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Luck
22. 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.
Classification
Language Experience Strategy
Group Consequences
T-Scores
23. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Simple Moral Education Programs
Reciprocal Teaching
Real Self-Efficacy
Transformation
24. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Reading
Whole Language Approach
Achievement Test Battery
Symbolic Modeling
25. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Exceptional Learners
26. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Difficulty of the Task
Social Inferences
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Forgetting
27. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Psychomotor Objectives
Concept-Driven Models
Predictive Validity
Decay
28. 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.
Absolute Grading Standards
Taxonomy
Criterion-Referenced Testing
General Exploratory Activities
29. 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.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Gifted and Talented Children
Normal Distribution
30. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Synthesized Modeling
Social Cognition
31. 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.
Transitivity
Contingency Contracting
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Proactive Interference
32. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Syntax
Static Assessment Approach
Reading
Allocated Time
33. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Difficulty of the Task
Method of Loci
Cultural Differences Theories
Feedback Loop
34. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Premack Principle
Rehearsal
Learning Disabilities
Inclusion
35. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Reliability
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Hearing Impairment
36. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Hearing Impairment
Character Education Programs
Two-Store Model
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
37. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Specific Learning Outcomes
Classification
Questioning Techniques
38. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Face Validity
Epilepsy
Feedback Loop
39. The study of how students learn and develop.
Z-Scores
Encoding
Long-Term Memory
Educational Psychology
40. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Attention
Primary Reinforcer
Specific Learning Outcomes
41. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Centration
Organization
Allocated Time
Criterion-Related Validity
42. 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.
Critical pedagogy
Heuristics
Conventional Morality
Withitness
43. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Foreclosure
Comparative Advance Organizers
Active teaching
Motivation
44. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
attrition
Learned Helplessness
Test Bias
Classification
45. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Construct Validity
Centration
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
46. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Models (Observational Learning)
Engaged Time
Perception
Achievement Test Battery
47. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Phonemes
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
48. Relating current information with previous learning.
Analogies
Mastery Grading Scales
Gender Identity
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
49. 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.
Articulation Difficulties
Practical Intelligence
Norm-Referenced Testing
Phonemes
50. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Expected Outcomes
Portfolio
Mental Retardation