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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Comparative Advance Organizers
Code Emphasis Strategy
External Locus of Control
2. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Class Inclusion
Subschemata
Planned Ignoring
Identity Achievement
3. 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.
Analytical Intelligence
Attribution Theory
Transitivity
Contingency Contracting
4. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Gender Bias
Reinforcer
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Extensive Retardation
5. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Time-Out
Portfolio
Generative learning
Normal Distribution
6. 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.
Decay
Encoding
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Achievement Test Battery
7. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Centration
Personal Fable
Achievement Test Battery
Community-Based Education Programs
8. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Preconventional Morality
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Algorithm
Dynamic Assessment Approach
9. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Demonstrations
Self-Determination Theory
Chunking
Scheduled Time
10. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
Behavioral Theory
Articulation Difficulties
General Objectives
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
11. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Group Training Experiences
Generalized Reinforcer
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Critical pedagogy
12. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Dyslexia
Reliability
attrition
13. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Premack Principle
Educational Psychology
Means-Ends Analysis
14. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Classification
Metacognition
Holophrastic Speech
Subschemata
15. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Z-Scores
Attribution Theory
Practical Intelligence
Pragmatics
16. The use of physical punishment.
Summative Evaluation
Centration
Corporal Punishment
Keyword
17. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Feedback Loop
Clustering
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Semantics
18. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Test-Retest Reliability
Active teaching
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Learning Disabilities
19. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Expected Outcomes
Social Learning and Expectancy
Formative Evaluation
Construct Validity
20. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Synthesized Modeling
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Predictive Validity
Derived Score
21. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Learning Disabilities
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Self-Regulation
Mnemonic Devices
22. 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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23. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Sensory Register
Teaching Efficacy
Test Bias
Perception
24. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
Inner Speech
Reciprocal Determinism
Psychometrics
25. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Episodic Memory
Extensive Retardation
Analogies
Algorithm
26. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Invincibility Fallacy
Gender Role
Receptive Language Disorders
Operant Behavior
27. 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.
Social Inferences
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Maturation
Synthesized Modeling
28. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Communication
Community-Based Education Programs
Gender Bias
Anxiety Disorders
29. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Assertive Discipline
attrition
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Educational Psychology
30. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Practical Intelligence
Hearing Impairment
Heuristics
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
31. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Classification
Elaboration
Phonemes
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
32. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Phonemes
Models (Observational Learning)
Shaping
Perceived Self-Efficacy
33. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Organization
Echoic Storage Register
Deficiency Needs
Operant Behavior
34. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Extensive Retardation
Identity
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Jigsaw II
35. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Gender Role
Reinforcer
Automaticity
Socioeconomic Status
36. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Direct instruction
Gifted and Talented Children
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Gender Bias
37. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Responsibility
Construct Validity
Procedural Memory
Classification
38. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Identity Achievement
Critical pedagogy
Inner Speech
Attention
39. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Secondary Reinforcer
Synthesized Modeling
Holophrastic Speech
40. 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
Assertive Discipline
Reliability
Working or Short-Term Memory
Synthetic Intelligence
41. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Forgetting
Accelerated Programs
42. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Retroactive Interference
Method of Loci
Metacognition
Norm-Referenced Testing
43. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Identity
Inattention
Norm-Referenced Testing
General Exploratory Activities
44. 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.
Pragmatics
Observational Learning
Social Learning and Expectancy
Effort
45. Internalized self-talk.
Inclusion
Confidence Interval
Content Validity
Inner Speech
46. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Public Law 94-142
Allocated Time
Normal Distribution
Inner Speech
47. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Limited Retardation
Object-Relations Theory
Pedagogy
Active teaching
48. The sensory register for auditory information.
Data-Driven Models
Echoic Storage Register
Generalized Reinforcer
Method of Loci
49. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Exhibition
Gender Bias
Voice Disorders
50. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Brainstorming
Social Cognition
Communication