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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Norm Group
Invincibility Fallacy
Accelerated Programs
Engaged Time
2. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Allocated Time
Generalized Reinforcer
Human Needs Theory
Type-S Conditioning
3. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Attribution Theory
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Self-Determination Theory
Validity
4. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Perception
Self-Efficacy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Expressive Disorders
5. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Retroactive Interference
Foreclosure
Ability
6. 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
Keyword
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
7. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Foreclosure
Absolute Grading Standards
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Mnemonic Devices
8. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Advance Organizer
Questioning Techniques
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Response Set
9. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Chunking
Echoic Storage Register
Type-R Conditioning
Data-Driven Models
10. 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.
Questioning Techniques
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Advance Organizer
Planned Ignoring
11. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Symbolic Modeling
Means-Ends Analysis
Test Bias
Syntax
12. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Communication
Static Assessment Approach
Questioning Techniques
Expected Outcomes
13. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Face Validity
Retrieval
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Growth Needs
14. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Percentile Scores
Reading
Postconventional Morality
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
15. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Identity Achievement
Motivation
Shaping
Internal Locus of Control
16. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Instructional Objectives
Vicarious Learning
Procedural Memory
17. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Conservation
Language Experience Strategy
Educational Goals
18. The use of physical punishment.
Conventional Morality
Holophrastic Speech
Corporal Punishment
Comparative Advance Organizers
19. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Achievement Test Battery
Analogies
Subschemata
Mental Retardation
20. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Voice Disorders
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
External Locus of Control
Cognitive Objectives
21. 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.
Long-Term Memory
Instruction
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Analytical Intelligence
22. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Real Self-Efficacy
Responsibility
Achievement Test Battery
Mnemonic Devices
23. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Hyperactivity
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Z-Scores
24. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Gifted and Talented Children
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
25. 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.
Corporal Punishment
Anxiety Disorders
Guided Discovery
Token Economy
26. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Learning Disabilities
Conservation
Clustering
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
27. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Enrichment Programs
Norm-Referenced Testing
Construct Validity
Criterion-Referenced Testing
28. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Cultural Differences Theories
Motivation
Validity
29. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Demonstrations
Simple Moral Education Programs
At-Risk Students
Metacognition
30. 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
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Direct instruction
T-Scores
Educational Goals
31. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Self-Determination Theory
Seriation
Exhibition
32. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Constructivism
Models (Instruction)
Self-Determination Theory
33. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Expected Outcomes
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
34. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Jigsaw II
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Group Training Experiences
Carroll's Model of School Learning
35. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Elaboration
Group Training Experiences
Norm Group
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
36. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Operant Behavior
Self-Efficacy
Psychometrics
Enrichment Programs
37. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Socioeconomic Status
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Instructional Objectives
Receptive Language Disorders
38. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Expository Advance Organizers
Aptitude Tests
Cooing
Responsibility
39. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Transitivity
Babbling
Time-Out
Portfolio
40. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Long-Term Memory
Analogies
Working-Backward Strategy
41. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Ability
Intermittent Retardation
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Gender Bias
42. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
attrition
Limited Retardation
Code Emphasis Strategy
Static Assessment Approach
43. 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.
Difficulty of the Task
Pragmatics
Inclusion
Working or Short-Term Memory
44. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Two-Store Model
Performance Grading Scales
Norm Group
Luck
45. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Intrinsic Motivation
Ability
Respondent Behavior
Models (Instruction)
46. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
Affective Objectives
Responsibility
Premack Principle
47. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Corporal Punishment
Cooperative Learning
Expository Advance Organizers
Luck
48. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Inclusion
Reading
Intermittent Retardation
Heuristics
49. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Inattention
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Generative learning
Individual and Small-Group Activities
50. 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
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Operant Behavior