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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Working or Short-Term Memory
Reading
Respondent Behavior
2. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Identity
Norm-Referenced Testing
T-Scores
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
3. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Socioeconomic Status
Severe and Profound Retardation
Inattention
Hearing Impairment
4. How relevant a test is at face value.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Face Validity
Luck
Effort
5. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Respondent Behavior
Static Assessment Approach
Inner Speech
Identity
6. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Feedback Loop
Problem Solving
Gender Role
Community-Based Education Programs
7. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Feedback Loop
Derived Score
Algorithm
8. Those one observes.
Proactive Interference
Instruction
Models (Observational Learning)
Moderate Retardation
9. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Acronym
Descriptive Statistics
Respondent Behavior
Organization
10. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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11. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Mental Retardation
Elaboration
Ability
External Locus of Control
12. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Preconventional Morality
Reading
Centration
13. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Allocated Time
Character
Norm Group
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
14. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Moderate Retardation
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Ability
Phonemes
15. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Contingency Contracting
Transfer of Information
Feedback Loop
Cognitive Objectives
16. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Gender Role
Expressive Disorders
Assertive Discipline
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
17. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Token Economy
Algorithm
Invincibility Fallacy
Primary Reinforcer
18. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Decay
Token Economy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
19. 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.
Critical pedagogy
Group Consequences
Scheduled Time
Normal Distribution
20. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Reversibility
Reciprocal Determinism
Phonology
Code Emphasis Strategy
21. 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.
Retrieval
Pivotal Response Therapy
Holophrastic Speech
Shaping
22. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Pragmatics
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Test-Retest Reliability
Generalized Reinforcer
23. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Receptive Language Disorders
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Sensory Register
Achievement Motivation
24. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Pervasive Retardation
Communication
Content Validity
Task Analysis
25. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Shaping
Moderate Retardation
Task Analysis
Standard Error of Estimate
26. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Instructional Theory
Gender Identity
Sensory Register
Symbolic Modeling
27. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Semantics
Allocated Time
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
28. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Achievement Test Battery
Models (Observational Learning)
Inner Speech
Performance Grading Scales
29. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Criterion-Related Validity
Community-Based Education Programs
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
30. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Invincibility Fallacy
Corporal Punishment
Reinforcer
Seriation
31. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Contingency Contracting
Reliability
Law of Effect
32. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Socioeconomic Status
Constructivism
Content Validity
Behavior Disorders
33. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Mastery Learning
Expected Outcomes
Summative Evaluation
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
34. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Procedural Memory
Standard Error of Estimate
Academic Learning Time
Rehearsal
35. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Growth Needs
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Tracking
36. 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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37. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Elaborative Encoding
Norm-Referenced Testing
Psychometrics
Behavioral Theory
38. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Transformation
Mental Retardation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Reversibility
39. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Educational Psychology
Corporal Punishment
Extrinsic Motivation
Social Learning and Expectancy
40. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Voice Disorders
Attention
41. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Problem Solving
Content Validity
Achievement Tests
42. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is unstable and intrinsic to the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Effort
Social Inferences
Percentile Scores
43. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Mnemonic Devices
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Seriation
Self-Efficacy
44. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Task Analysis
Expository Advance Organizers
Planned Ignoring
45. 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
Psychometrics
Planned Ignoring
Reversibility
46. 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.
Difficulty of the Task
Synthetic Intelligence
Gender Role
Communication
47. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Withitness
Problem Solving
Questioning Techniques
Self-Regulation
48. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is stable and external to the student.
Taxonomy
Identity Diffusion
Mastery Grading Scales
Difficulty of the Task
49. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Identity
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Constructivism
Test-Retest Reliability
50. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Organization
Maturation
Norm Group