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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Allocated Time
Shaping
Severe and Profound Retardation
attrition
2. 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.
Community-Based Education Programs
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Reversibility
Observational Learning
3. Those one observes.
Models (Observational Learning)
Concurrent Validity
Character Education Programs
Hyperactivity
4. 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.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Encoding
Transitivity
Means-Ends Analysis
5. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Premack Principle
Mastery Grading Scales
Responsibility
Scheduled Time
6. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
External Locus of Control
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Public Law 94-142
7. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Mild Retardation
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Semantic Memory
8. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Social Inferences
Law of Effect
Heuristics
Elaboration
9. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Receptive Language Disorders
Attention
Transitivity
Object-Relations Theory
10. 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.
Test Bias
Response Set
Practical Intelligence
Identity
11. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Reinforcer
Models (Observational Learning)
Achievement Motivation
Conditioning
12. 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.
Hyperactivity
Affective Objectives
Luck
attrition
13. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Procedural Memory
Construct Validity
Schemata
Public Law 94-142
14. 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.
Reciprocal Determinism
Syntax
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
15. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Mental Retardation
Test Bias
Fluency Disorders
Dynamic Assessment Approach
16. 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
Educational Goals
Deficiency Needs
Direct instruction
Brainstorming
17. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Functional Fixedness
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Extensive Retardation
Social Cognition
18. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Phonology
Analogies
Classification
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
19. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Postconventional Morality
Critical pedagogy
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Formative Evaluation
20. 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
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Practical Intelligence
Synthesized Modeling
Human Needs Theory
21. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Conservation
Postconventional Morality
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
22. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Test-Retest Reliability
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Predictive Validity
23. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Keyword
Self-Regulation
Automaticity
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
24. How capable one actually is.
Hyperactivity
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Mnemonic Devices
Real Self-Efficacy
25. 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.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
26. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Enrichment Programs
Gifted and Talented Children
Tracking
27. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Symbolic Modeling
Personal Fable
Instructional Objectives
28. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Forgetting
Enrichment Programs
Invincibility Fallacy
Conventional Morality
29. The sensory register for auditory information.
Echoic Storage Register
Triarchic Theory
Preconventional Morality
Cultural Deficit Theories
30. 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).
Face Validity
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Limited Retardation
Conventional Morality
31. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Stability
Keyword
Analogies
Guided Discovery
32. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Type-S Conditioning
Gender Identity
Fluency Disorders
Synthetic Intelligence
33. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Jigsaw II
Luck
Questioning Techniques
34. 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.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Seriation
Critical pedagogy
Transitivity
35. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Metacognition
Simple Moral Education Programs
Maturation
Centration
36. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Achievement Motivation
Dyslexia
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
37. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Mental Retardation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Attribution Theory
Conventional Morality
38. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Models (Instruction)
Moderate Retardation
Summative Evaluation
39. 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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40. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Semantics
Invincibility Fallacy
41. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Corporal Punishment
Learned Helplessness
Two-sigma problem
Enrichment Programs
42. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Enrichment Programs
Moderate Retardation
Exhibition
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
43. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
At-Risk Students
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Exceptional Learners
Identity Diffusion
44. Internalized self-talk.
Inner Speech
Models (Instruction)
Hyperactivity
Inattention
45. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Aptitude Tests
Cultural Differences Theories
Semantics
Articulation Difficulties
46. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Learning Disability
Metacognition
Models (Instruction)
Instructional Objectives
47. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Object-Relations Theory
Reciprocal Teaching
Exhibition
Conditioning
48. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Guided Discovery
Scheduled Time
Development
Procedural Memory
49. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Performance Grading Scales
Stability
Reciprocal Teaching
50. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Analytical Intelligence
Cultural Differences Theories
Morphemes
Response Set
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