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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Gender Identity
Character
Automaticity
Anxiety Disorders
2. 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.
Instructional Objectives
Socioeconomic Status
Achievement Motivation
Student Team Achievement Decisions
3. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Retroactive Interference
Language Experience Strategy
Demonstrations
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
Direct instruction
Mnemonic Devices
Transfer of Information
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
5. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Conditioning
Deficiency Needs
Articulation Difficulties
6. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Cultural Differences Theories
Generative learning
Classification
7. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Questioning Techniques
Expository Teaching
Extrinsic Motivation
Affective Objectives
8. 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.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Socioeconomic Status
Syntax
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
9. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Gifted and Talented Children
Classification
Rehearsal
Clustering
10. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Centration
Teaching Efficacy
Feedback Loop
Analytical Intelligence
11. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Achievement Test Battery
Practical Intelligence
Clustering
Response Set
12. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Episodic Memory
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Character Education Programs
Content Validity
13. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Formative Evaluation
Hyperactivity
Working or Short-Term Memory
Fluency Disorders
14. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Cooperative Learning
Class Inclusion
Classification
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
15. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Shaping
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Z-Scores
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
16. 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
Questioning Techniques
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Behavioral Theory
17. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Retroactive Interference
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
18. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Social Learning and Expectancy
Planned Ignoring
19. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Transfer of Information
External Locus of Control
Data-Driven Models
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
20. The use of physical punishment.
Gender Bias
Phonics Approach
Corporal Punishment
Triarchic Theory
21. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Luck
Validity
Specific Learning Outcomes
22. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Centration
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Validity
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
23. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Phonics Approach
Withitness
Content Validity
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
24. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Vicarious Learning
Models (Instruction)
Epilepsy
Criterion-Referenced Testing
25. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Motivation
Contingency Contracting
Active teaching
Secondary Reinforcer
26. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Conservation
IDEAL Strategy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
27. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Luck
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Extensive Retardation
Contingency Contracting
28. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Time-Out
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Constructivism
Language Experience Strategy
29. 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.
Reciprocal Teaching
Hyperactivity
Impulsivity
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
30. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Holophrastic Speech
Forgetting
Models (Observational Learning)
31. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Organization
Taxonomy
Ability
Transitional Bilingual Programs
32. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Language System
Concurrent Validity
Response-Cost System
Chunking
33. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Normal Distribution
Identity Achievement
Attribution Theory
Elaboration
34. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
At-Risk Students
Gender Role
Standard Error of Estimate
Intermittent Retardation
35. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Jigsaw II
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Vicarious Learning
Identity Diffusion
36. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Rehearsal
Models (Observational Learning)
Expressive Disorders
37. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Socioeconomic Status
Two-Store Model
Achievement Test Battery
38. 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.
T-Scores
Internal Locus of Control
Models (Observational Learning)
Test Bias
39. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Construct Validity
Motivation
Responsibility
Chunking
40. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Models (Observational Learning)
Learning Disability
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Identity
41. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Transformation
Attribution Theory
Elaborative Encoding
Subschemata
42. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Concurrent Validity
attrition
Learning Disability
Class Inclusion
43. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Advance Organizer
Cognitive Objectives
Long-Term Memory
44. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Gender Identity
Cooperative Learning
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
45. 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 -
Intermittent Retardation
Anxiety Disorders
Language Experience Strategy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
46. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Episodic Memory
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Secondary Reinforcer
Response-Cost System
47. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int
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48. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Dyslexia
Retroactive Interference
Vicarious Learning
Transitional Bilingual Programs
49. 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.
Intrinsic Motivation
Taxonomy
Encoding
Active teaching
50. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Advance Organizer
Direct instruction
Norm Group
Maturation