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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Response-Cost System
Data-Driven Models
Anxiety Disorders
Educational Psychology
2. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Limited Retardation
Sensory Register
Dyslexia
Transitivity
3. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Reading
Group Training Experiences
Response-Cost System
Learning Disability
4. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Foreclosure
Expository Advance Organizers
Character
Absolute Grading Standards
5. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Impulsivity
Whole Language Approach
Token Economy
Educational Goals
6. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Impulsivity
Keyword
Token Economy
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
7. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Luck
Behavior Disorders
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Expository Teaching
8. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Content Validity
Group Consequences
Pervasive Retardation
Norm-Referenced Testing
9. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Voice Disorders
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Direct Modeling
10. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Comparative Advance Organizers
Mastery Grading Scales
Summative Evaluation
11. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Direct Modeling
Anxiety Disorders
Psychometrics
12. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Attention
Questioning Techniques
Maturation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
13. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
Seriation
Reading
Group Consequences
14. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Gifted and Talented Children
Receptive Language Disorders
Conditioning
Group Consequences
15. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Achievement Test Battery
Proactive Interference
Vicarious Learning
Reversibility
16. 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.
Constructivism
Instructional Objectives
Absolute Grading Standards
Response-Cost System
17. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Academic Learning Time
Fluency Disorders
Scheduled Time
18. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Standard Error of Estimate
Assertive Discipline
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
19. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Inattention
Inner Speech
Test Bias
Responsibility
20. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Group Training Experiences
Morphemes
Gender Role
21. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Respondent Behavior
Inattention
22. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Symbolic Modeling
Keyword
Functional Fixedness
23. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Concurrent Validity
Instructional Objectives
Phonemes
Perceived Self-Efficacy
24. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Personal Fable
Fluency Disorders
Psychometrics
Centration
25. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Critical pedagogy
Exhibition
Maturation
26. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Face Validity
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Impulsivity
27. 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.
Constructivism
Self-Efficacy
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Human Needs Theory
28. The study of how students learn and develop.
Withitness
Models (Instruction)
Educational Psychology
Responsibility
29. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Semantic Memory
Seriation
Pragmatics
Growth Needs
30. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Inner Speech
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Normal Distribution
Synthesized Modeling
31. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Proactive Interference
Operant Behavior
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
32. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Predictive Validity
Vicarious Learning
Retroactive Interference
Fluency Disorders
33. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Voice Disorders
Sensory Register
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Retrieval
34. Internalized self-talk.
Expository Advance Organizers
Inner Speech
Normal Distribution
Babbling
35. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Triarchic Theory
Generative learning
Rehearsal
Phonics Approach
36. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Percentile Scores
Descriptive Statistics
Metacognition
Engaged Time
37. 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
Norm Group
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Dyslexia
38. 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).
Public Law 94-142
Exceptional Learners
Semantic Memory
Community-Based Education Programs
39. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Development
Working-Backward Strategy
40. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Triarchic Theory
Simple Moral Education Programs
Gifted and Talented Children
Derived Score
41. 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.
Identity Achievement
Descriptive Grading Scales
Advance Organizer
Effort
42. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Mild Retardation
Aptitude Tests
Class Inclusion
Transitional Bilingual Programs
43. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Symbolic Modeling
Concept-Driven Models
Static Assessment Approach
General Exploratory Activities
44. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Sensory Register
Gender Identity
Z-Scores
At-Risk Students
45. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Instructional Objectives
Type-R Conditioning
Summative Evaluation
46. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Algorithm
Secondary Reinforcer
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Models (Instruction)
47. 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.
Intrinsic Motivation
Elaborative Encoding
Internal Locus of Control
Hearing Impairment
48. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Internalization
Cultural Deficit Theories
Algorithm
Pedagogy
49. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Luck
Holophrastic Speech
50. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Premack Principle
Analogies