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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Growth Needs
Token Economy
Concept-Driven Models
Deficiency Needs
2. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
3. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Gender Role
Deficiency Needs
Automaticity
Real Self-Efficacy
4. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Chunking
Algorithm
Constructivism
Planned Ignoring
5. 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.
Hyperactivity
Sensory Register
Allocated Time
Formative Evaluation
6. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Predictive Validity
Learned Helplessness
Dyslexia
Means-Ends Analysis
7. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Phonics Approach
Development
Predictive Validity
Active teaching
8. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Internalization
Planned Ignoring
General Exploratory Activities
Concept-Driven Models
9. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Portfolio
Heuristics
Cooperative Learning
Generalized Reinforcer
10. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Social Learning and Expectancy
Episodic Memory
Data-Driven Models
Deficiency Needs
11. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Problem Solving
Exceptional Learners
Synthetic Intelligence
Comparative Advance Organizers
12. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Descriptive Grading Scales
Response Set
Cooing
13. 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.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Contingency Contracting
Rehearsal
Standard Error of Estimate
14. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Percentile Scores
Educational Goals
Primary Reinforcer
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
15. 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.
Assertive Discipline
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Educational Psychology
Accelerated Programs
16. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Self-Regulation
Chunking
Pervasive Retardation
Internal Locus of Control
17. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Respondent Behavior
Comparative Advance Organizers
Demonstrations
Individual and Small-Group Activities
18. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
Educational Goals
Babbling
Reversibility
19. 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.
Conditioning
Operant Behavior
Learning Disabilities
Invincibility Fallacy
20. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Contingency Contracting
Inattention
Syntax
T-Scores
21. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Episodic Memory
Elaboration
Learned Helplessness
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
22. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Models (Observational Learning)
Sensory Register
Hearing Impairment
Expository Teaching
23. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Token Economy
Symbolic Modeling
Performance Grading Scales
Expressive Disorders
24. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Extrinsic Motivation
Inattention
Mild Retardation
Educational Goals
25. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Group Consequences
Social Cognition
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Response Set
26. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Static Assessment Approach
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Assertive Discipline
27. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Echoic Storage Register
Z-Scores
Encoding
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
28. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
Elaboration
Perception
Aptitude Tests
29. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Anxiety Disorders
Identity
Test Bias
30. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Feedback Loop
Syntax
Exhibition
Transfer of Information
31. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Norm Group
Premack Principle
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Inclusion
32. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Acronym
Learning Disability
Educational Goals
33. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Demonstrations
Analytical Intelligence
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
34. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Anxiety Disorders
Articulation Difficulties
Impulsivity
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
35. 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.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Predictive Validity
Metacognition
Criterion-Referenced Testing
36. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Phonemes
Morphemes
Reversibility
Respondent Behavior
37. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Episodic Memory
Subschemata
Self-Efficacy
38. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Social Cognition
Rehearsal
Formative Evaluation
Public Law 94-142
39. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Conventional Morality
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Working-Backward Strategy
Voice Disorders
40. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Achievement Test Battery
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Validity
Steiner-Waldorf Education
41. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
IDEAL Strategy
Premack Principle
Babbling
Pedagogy
42. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Elaborative Encoding
Psychometrics
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Aptitude Tests
43. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Test-Retest Reliability
Demonstrations
Exceptional Learners
Synthetic Intelligence
44. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Elaboration
T-Scores
Cooperative Learning
Achievement Test Battery
45. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Fluency Disorders
Personal Fable
Affective Objectives
Development
46. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Long-Term Memory
Descriptive Statistics
Functional Fixedness
Guided Discovery
47. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Voice Disorders
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Metacognition
attrition
48. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Chunking
Norm Group
Classification
Sensory Register
49. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Law of Effect
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Community-Based Education Programs
50. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Responsibility
Conditioning
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)