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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Episodic Memory
Expressive Disorders
Encoding
Language Experience Strategy
2. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Vicarious Learning
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Jigsaw II
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
3. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Achievement Tests
Affective Objectives
Test-Retest Reliability
Moderate Retardation
4. 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.
Descriptive Statistics
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Learning Disabilities
Semantics
5. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Postconventional Morality
Direct instruction
Public Law 94-142
Hyperactivity
6. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Subschemata
Character
Pedagogy
Group Consequences
7. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Withitness
Percentile Scores
Code Emphasis Strategy
Whole Language Approach
8. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Gender Bias
Limited Retardation
Character Education Programs
Scheduled Time
9. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Inclusion
Concurrent Validity
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Episodic Memory
10. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Withitness
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Performance Grading Scales
11. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Cooperative Learning
Confidence Interval
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Intrinsic Motivation
12. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Personal Fable
Decay
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Character
13. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Extensive Retardation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Validity
Phonemes
14. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Cooing
Babbling
Psychomotor Objectives
Criterion-Related Validity
15. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Subschemata
Group Training Experiences
16. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Working-Backward Strategy
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Inattention
Identity Achievement
17. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Decay
Responsibility
Achievement Tests
Luck
18. 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
Instruction
Z-Scores
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
19. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Tracking
Questioning Techniques
Babbling
Language Experience Strategy
20. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Standard Error of Estimate
Learned Helplessness
Task Analysis
21. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Subschemata
Attention
Norm Group
Community-Based Education Programs
22. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Moratorium
Direct instruction
Critical pedagogy
Schemata
23. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Criterion-Related Validity
Self-Efficacy
Voice Disorders
Real Self-Efficacy
24. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Mastery Learning
Engaged Time
Growth Needs
Deficiency Needs
25. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Semantic Memory
Mild Retardation
Learned Helplessness
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
26. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Teaching Efficacy
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Acronym
Preconventional Morality
27. The total length of the class.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Scheduled Time
Planned Ignoring
Method of Loci
28. The study of how students learn and develop.
Heuristics
Educational Psychology
Task Analysis
Pervasive Retardation
29. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Exhibition
Analytical Intelligence
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
30. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Schemata
Taxonomy
Assertive Discipline
Social Cognition
31. 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
Generative learning
Gender Identity
Norm Group
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
32. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Derived Score
Difficulty of the Task
33. 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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34. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Mnemonic Devices
Performance Grading Scales
Proactive Interference
Identity
35. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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36. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Extensive Retardation
Postconventional Morality
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
37. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Means-Ends Analysis
Attribution Theory
38. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Social Inferences
Conventional Morality
Individual and Small-Group Activities
39. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Models (Instruction)
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Expository Teaching
Phonology
40. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Limited Retardation
Procedural Memory
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
41. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Dyslexia
Cultural Deficit Theories
Content Validity
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
42. 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.
Gender Role
Forgetting
Jigsaw II
Impulsivity
43. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Gender Bias
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Keyword
Procedural Memory
44. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Achievement Motivation
Epilepsy
Summative Evaluation
Language System
45. 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.
Identity Diffusion
Phonics Approach
Construct Validity
Long-Term Memory
46. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Conservation
Data-Driven Models
Behavioral Theory
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
47. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Conventional Morality
Advance Organizer
Dyslexia
Social Cognition
48. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Phonics Approach
Task Analysis
Validity
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
49. 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.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Portfolio
Expressive Disorders
50. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Motivation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Group Training Experiences
Two-Store Model