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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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
Reciprocal Teaching
Concept-Driven Models
Automaticity
Carroll's Model of School Learning
2. 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.
Corporal Punishment
Critical pedagogy
Enrichment Programs
Cognitive Objectives
3. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Foreclosure
Semantic Memory
4. 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
Problem Solving
Identity Diffusion
Direct instruction
Attention
5. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Social Inferences
Guided Discovery
Episodic Memory
Echoic Storage Register
6. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Active teaching
Vicarious Learning
Critical pedagogy
Pragmatics
7. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Cooing
Test Bias
Portfolio
Validity
8. 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 -
Clustering
Whole Language Approach
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Z-Scores
9. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Standard Error of Estimate
Premack Principle
Contingency Contracting
10. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Fluency Disorders
Test-Retest Reliability
Face Validity
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
11. 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.
Educational Goals
Self-Regulation
Concurrent Validity
Accelerated Programs
12. The study of the meaning behind words.
Social Cognition
Character
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Semantics
13. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Holophrastic Speech
Growth Needs
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Gifted and Talented Children
14. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Chunking
Primary Reinforcer
Tracking
Test-Retest Reliability
15. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Personal Fable
Clustering
Foreclosure
16. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Data-Driven Models
Premack Principle
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Problem Solving
17. 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 stable and intrinsic to the student.
Anxiety Disorders
Automaticity
Ability
Luck
18. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Class Inclusion
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Mastery Grading Scales
Norm Group
19. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Expository Advance Organizers
Psychometrics
Internal Locus of Control
20. 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.
Behavior Disorders
Test Bias
Holophrastic Speech
Dual Coding Hypothesis
21. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Expository Teaching
Self-Determination Theory
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Performance Grading Scales
22. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Accelerated Programs
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Absolute Grading Standards
23. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Keyword
Construct Validity
Community-Based Education Programs
Secondary Reinforcer
24. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Character Education Programs
Community-Based Education Programs
Self-Efficacy
25. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Retroactive Interference
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
26. 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.
Maturation
Absolute Grading Standards
Allocated Time
Iconic Storage Register
27. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Schemata
Babbling
IDEAL Strategy
28. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Confidence Interval
Hearing Impairment
Standard Error of Estimate
Retrieval
29. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Social Cognition
Encoding
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Organization
30. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Heuristics
Derived Score
Aptitude Tests
Gender Role
31. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Construct Validity
Acronym
Test-Retest Reliability
Seriation
32. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Generalized Reinforcer
Reciprocal Teaching
Summative Evaluation
Expressive Disorders
33. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Achievement Tests
Moratorium
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Social Cognition
34. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Reciprocal Determinism
Learning Disabilities
Responsibility
Teaching Efficacy
35. 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.
Expository Teaching
Mastery Learning
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Effort
36. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Articulation Difficulties
Planned Ignoring
Response Set
Direct instruction
37. 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.
Gifted and Talented Children
Anxiety Disorders
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Validity
38. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Type-S Conditioning
Simple Moral Education Programs
Semantics
Symbolic Modeling
39. 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).
Mastery Grading Scales
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Task Analysis
Transfer of Information
40. 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.
Echoic Storage Register
Gender Role
Scheduled Time
Contingency Contracting
41. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Attribution Theory
Two-Store Model
Semantics
42. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Holophrastic Speech
Cooperative Learning
External Locus of Control
43. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Foreclosure
Means-Ends Analysis
Acronym
44. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Impulsivity
Learning Disability
Operant Behavior
Episodic Memory
45. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Enrichment Programs
Character
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
46. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Absolute Grading Standards
Stability
Semantics
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
47. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Aptitude Tests
Self-Determination Theory
Norm Group
48. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hearing Impairment
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Test Bias
Gender Identity
49. 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
Primary Reinforcer
Heuristics
Formative Evaluation
Two-Store Model
50. 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
Two-sigma problem
Working or Short-Term Memory
Mastery Grading Scales
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