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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Instructional Theory
Psychomotor Objectives
General Objectives
2. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Identity Achievement
Human Needs Theory
Simple Moral Education Programs
Conservation
3. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Fluency Disorders
Cooing
Expository Teaching
Models (Instruction)
4. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Practical Intelligence
Transitivity
Effort
Observational Learning
5. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Questioning Techniques
Face Validity
Dynamic Assessment Approach
6. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Two-Store Model
Personal Fable
Generative learning
Contingency Contracting
7. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Sensory Register
Postconventional Morality
Elaborative Encoding
8. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Conditioning
Derived Score
Algorithm
9. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Performance Grading Scales
Phonemes
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Achievement Test Battery
10. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Stability
Postconventional Morality
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Guided Discovery
11. 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.
Inclusion
Advance Organizer
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
12. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Concept-Driven Models
Reliability
Triarchic Theory
attrition
13. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Reinforcer
Chunking
Response Set
Group Consequences
14. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Confidence Interval
Type-S Conditioning
Expressive Disorders
Preconventional Morality
15. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Preconventional Morality
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Public Law 94-142
Analogies
16. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Human Needs Theory
Character
Phonemes
Preconventional Morality
17. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Generalized Reinforcer
Conservation
Morphemes
Premack Principle
18. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Task Analysis
Models (Instruction)
Self-Efficacy
Gender Identity
19. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Seriation
Transformation
Motivation
Observational Learning
20. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Invincibility Fallacy
Validity
Mental Retardation
Static Assessment Approach
21. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Observational Learning
Public Law 94-142
Practical Intelligence
Taxonomy
22. 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
Moratorium
Reciprocal Teaching
Norm Group
Pivotal Response Therapy
23. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Learning Disability
Critical pedagogy
Achievement Tests
24. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
Cultural Differences Theories
Gifted and Talented Children
Reading
25. Those one observes.
Guided Discovery
Vicarious Learning
Models (Observational Learning)
Percentile Scores
26. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Aptitude Tests
Feedback Loop
Primary Reinforcer
27. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Limited Retardation
Gender Role
Moderate Retardation
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
28. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Reliability
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Organization
Retroactive Interference
29. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Standard Error of Estimate
Achievement Motivation
Moratorium
Predictive Validity
30. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Concurrent Validity
Conservation
Direct instruction
31. 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
Metacognition
Analogies
Self-Regulation
32. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Analogies
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Cognitive Objectives
Personal Fable
33. 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.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Jigsaw II
Inattention
Reversibility
34. The use of physical punishment.
Behavioral Theory
Corporal Punishment
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Rehearsal
35. 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.
Conventional Morality
Expository Advance Organizers
Self-Determination Theory
Character
36. 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).
Active teaching
Reciprocal Determinism
Invincibility Fallacy
Growth Needs
37. 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.
Identity Diffusion
Learned Helplessness
Formative Evaluation
Automaticity
38. 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.
Intermittent Retardation
Respondent Behavior
Constructivism
Identity
39. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Law of Effect
Cooperative Learning
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
40. 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.
Hyperactivity
Inclusion
Community-Based Education Programs
Accelerated Programs
41. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Transitivity
Content Validity
Reliability
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
42. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Means-Ends Analysis
Mental Retardation
Learned Helplessness
Socioeconomic Status
43. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Engaged Time
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Formative Evaluation
Learned Helplessness
44. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Echoic Storage Register
Extrinsic Motivation
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Analogies
45. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Reinforcer
Centration
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Inattention
46. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Preconventional Morality
Phonology
Transitivity
Content Validity
47. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Mastery Learning
Cooing
Visual Impairment
Norm Group
48. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Psychometrics
Attention
Seriation
49. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Engaged Time
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Symbolic Modeling
Educational Goals
50. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Phonics Approach
Z-Scores
Mild Retardation
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal