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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Moratorium
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Growth Needs
Social Cognition
2. 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 external to the student.
Self-Regulation
Luck
Hearing Impairment
Growth Needs
3. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Test Bias
Formative Evaluation
IDEAL Strategy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
4. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Engaged Time
Demonstrations
IDEAL Strategy
Two-sigma problem
5. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Scheduled Time
Group Consequences
Visual Impairment
Phonics Approach
6. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Identity Diffusion
Expository Teaching
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Language System
7. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Transitivity
Social Learning and Expectancy
Educational Psychology
Dual Coding Hypothesis
8. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Practical Intelligence
Cooperative Learning
Performance Grading Scales
Norm-Referenced Testing
9. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Algorithm
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Confidence Interval
Psychomotor Objectives
10. The sensory register for auditory information.
Echoic Storage Register
Test Bias
Aptitude Tests
Secondary Reinforcer
11. 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.
Decay
Formative Evaluation
Anxiety Disorders
Extensive Retardation
12. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Attention
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Achievement Tests
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
13. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Expected Outcomes
Elaboration
Generalized Reinforcer
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
14. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Synthetic Intelligence
Behavior Disorders
Self-Determination Theory
General (or High-Road) Transfer
15. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Luck
Pedagogy
16. 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.
Taxonomy
Critical pedagogy
Episodic Memory
Ability
17. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Allocated Time
Proactive Interference
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Teaching Efficacy
18. 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.
General Objectives
Proactive Interference
Social Learning and Expectancy
Algorithm
19. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Limited Retardation
Feedback Loop
Hyperactivity
20. 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.
Engaged Time
Conditioning
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Automaticity
21. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Psychometrics
Two-sigma problem
Whole Language Approach
Operant Behavior
22. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Iconic Storage Register
Direct instruction
Tracking
Impulsivity
23. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Episodic Memory
Specific Learning Outcomes
Tracking
Deficiency Needs
24. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Conditioning
Severe and Profound Retardation
attrition
Transformation
25. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Reading
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Instruction
Retroactive Interference
26. 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).
Transfer of Information
Real Self-Efficacy
Intrinsic Motivation
Identity Achievement
27. 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.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Language System
Response-Cost System
28. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Portfolio
Jigsaw II
29. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Pervasive Retardation
Jigsaw II
Criterion-Related Validity
30. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Moratorium
Response-Cost System
Concept-Driven Models
Face Validity
31. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Character Education Programs
32. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Exhibition
Semantic Memory
Automaticity
Gender Bias
33. 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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34. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Morphemes
Voice Disorders
Pedagogy
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
35. 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.
Time-Out
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Intrinsic Motivation
Identity
36. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Rehearsal
Type-S Conditioning
Method of Loci
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
37. 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).
Identity Diffusion
Preconventional Morality
Achievement Tests
Elaboration
38. 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).
Social Inferences
Test-Retest Reliability
Conventional Morality
Transitional Bilingual Programs
39. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Law of Effect
Classification
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Expected Outcomes
40. 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.
Transformation
IDEAL Strategy
Hyperactivity
Language Experience Strategy
41. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Limited Retardation
Two-sigma problem
Exhibition
Algorithm
42. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Behavior Disorders
Intermittent Retardation
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Gender Role
43. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Analytical Intelligence
Criterion-Related Validity
Instructional Objectives
Response Set
44. 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
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
45. 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
Simple Moral Education Programs
Assertive Discipline
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
46. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Socioeconomic Status
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Psychometrics
Identity Achievement
47. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Semantic Memory
Models (Instruction)
Retroactive Interference
Epilepsy
48. 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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49. 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)
Forgetting
Pervasive Retardation
Acronym
50. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
IDEAL Strategy
Gender Identity
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
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