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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Respondent Behavior
IDEAL Strategy
Brainstorming
Communication
2. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Conditioning
Syntax
Development
External Locus of Control
3. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Face Validity
Acronym
Procedural Memory
Type-S Conditioning
4. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Tracking
Questioning Techniques
Phonemes
Analogies
5. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Learning Disability
Reading
Concept-Driven Models
Group Consequences
6. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Synthesized Modeling
Social Inferences
External Locus of Control
Transitional Bilingual Programs
7. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Forgetting
Centration
Impulsivity
Learning Disability
8. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Gifted and Talented Children
Cognitive Objectives
Method of Loci
9. 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.
Pervasive Retardation
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Shaping
Practical Intelligence
10. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Group Consequences
Performance Grading Scales
Public Law 94-142
Self-Regulation
11. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Anxiety Disorders
Gender Bias
Behavior Disorders
Gender Identity
12. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Syntax
Norm Group
Difficulty of the Task
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
13. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Echoic Storage Register
Community-Based Education Programs
Norm-Referenced Testing
Descriptive Grading Scales
14. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Voice Disorders
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Heuristics
Triarchic Theory
15. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Cognitive Objectives
Data-Driven Models
Concept-Driven Models
Taxonomy
16. 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
Working-Backward Strategy
Instruction
Development
Language System
17. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
Educational Psychology
Means-Ends Analysis
Critical pedagogy
18. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Forgetting
Personal Fable
Self-Regulation
19. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Centration
Postconventional Morality
Maturation
20. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Task Analysis
Generative learning
21. 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.
Synthetic Intelligence
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Language System
Group Consequences
22. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Internalization
Conditioning
Visual Impairment
23. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Withitness
Analytical Intelligence
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Response Set
24. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Epilepsy
Predictive Validity
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Real Self-Efficacy
25. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Reversibility
Decay
Language Experience Strategy
Centration
26. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Taxonomy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Decay
Responsibility
27. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Z-Scores
Validity
Attention
Achievement Test Battery
28. 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.
Effort
Content Validity
Comparative Advance Organizers
Test Bias
29. 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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30. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Operant Behavior
Working or Short-Term Memory
Phonology
Engaged Time
31. 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.
Procedural Memory
Impulsivity
Comparative Advance Organizers
Ability
32. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Method of Loci
Constructivism
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Gender Bias
33. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Psychomotor Objectives
Organization
Pivotal Response Therapy
34. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Self-Determination Theory
Effort
Internal Locus of Control
Educational Goals
35. 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).
Learning Disabilities
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Conventional Morality
Psychomotor Objectives
36. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Analogies
Working-Backward Strategy
Transformation
37. 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
Token Economy
Advance Organizer
Perception
38. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Proactive Interference
Conditioning
Semantic Memory
39. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil
Performance Grading Scales
Retroactive Interference
Attribution Theory
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
40. 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 (
Performance Grading Scales
Postconventional Morality
Seriation
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
41. 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).
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Preconventional Morality
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Engaged Time
42. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Semantic Memory
Group Training Experiences
Human Needs Theory
Primary Reinforcer
43. 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.
Seriation
Keyword
Response-Cost System
Organization
44. 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.
Elaboration
Two-Store Model
Severe and Profound Retardation
Critical pedagogy
45. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Real Self-Efficacy
Law of Effect
46. 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.
Teaching Efficacy
Internalization
Difficulty of the Task
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
47. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Educational Psychology
Extrinsic Motivation
Self-Efficacy
Accelerated Programs
48. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Epilepsy
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Identity Diffusion
Inclusion
49. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Psychomotor Objectives
Character Education Programs
Social Inferences
General Exploratory Activities
50. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Centration
Impulsivity
attrition