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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Elaborative Encoding
Exhibition
Z-Scores
2. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Task Analysis
Derived Score
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
General (or High-Road) Transfer
3. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Classification
Hearing Impairment
Articulation Difficulties
4. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Retrieval
Questioning Techniques
Algorithm
Withitness
5. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Z-Scores
Seriation
Premack Principle
Semantic Memory
6. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Clustering
Exceptional Learners
Episodic Memory
Academic Learning Time
7. 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
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Problem Solving
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Semantics
8. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Analogies
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Mental Retardation
Group Consequences
9. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Attention
Heuristics
Behavior Disorders
Inclusion
10. 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.
Reinforcer
Response-Cost System
Long-Term Memory
Pivotal Response Therapy
11. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Tracking
Retrieval
Community-Based Education Programs
Anxiety Disorders
12. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Preconventional Morality
Receptive Language Disorders
Echoic Storage Register
13. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Semantic Memory
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Decay
14. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Questioning Techniques
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Metacognition
Formative Evaluation
15. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Babbling
Self-Regulation
Corporal Punishment
Centration
16. 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.
Achievement Motivation
Advance Organizer
Direct instruction
Carroll's Model of School Learning
17. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
General Exploratory Activities
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
18. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Teaching Efficacy
Instruction
Language Experience Strategy
Means-Ends Analysis
19. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Operant Behavior
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Phonology
Ability
20. 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
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Working-Backward Strategy
Gender Identity
21. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Norm Group
Mental Retardation
Self-Determination Theory
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
22. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Acronym
Models (Observational Learning)
Extensive Retardation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
23. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Psychometrics
Identity Achievement
Derived Score
24. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Vicarious Learning
Group Training Experiences
Attribution Theory
Models (Observational Learning)
25. 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
Inner Speech
Active teaching
Instructional Objectives
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
26. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Cognitive Objectives
External Locus of Control
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
27. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Effort
Chunking
Data-Driven Models
28. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Luck
Advance Organizer
Keyword
Episodic Memory
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. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Guided Discovery
External Locus of Control
Episodic Memory
Confidence Interval
31. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Instructional Objectives
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Descriptive Grading Scales
32. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Identity
Growth Needs
Self-Regulation
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
33. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Guided Discovery
Retrieval
Human Needs Theory
Epilepsy
34. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Analytical Intelligence
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Student Team Achievement Decisions
35. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Rehearsal
Instruction
Planned Ignoring
Moratorium
36. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Behavior Disorders
Iconic Storage Register
Behavioral Theory
Synthesized Modeling
37. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Educational Goals
Teaching Efficacy
Steiner-Waldorf Education
38. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Cooing
Encoding
Chunking
39. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Intrinsic Motivation
Expected Outcomes
Forgetting
Socioeconomic Status
40. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Instructional Objectives
Iconic Storage Register
Mnemonic Devices
41. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Seriation
Two-Store Model
Pragmatics
Self-Efficacy
42. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Law of Effect
Synthesized Modeling
Maturation
Epilepsy
43. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Mastery Learning
Vicarious Learning
Retrieval
44. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Epilepsy
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Maturation
Limited Retardation
45. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Working-Backward Strategy
Moderate Retardation
Transitivity
46. 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
Teaching Efficacy
Attribution Theory
Mental Retardation
Heuristics
47. Those one observes.
Voice Disorders
Procedural Memory
Epilepsy
Models (Observational Learning)
48. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Expository Advance Organizers
Retrieval
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Questioning Techniques
49. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Encoding
Normal Distribution
Gender Identity
Centration
50. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
External Locus of Control
Scheduled Time
Task Analysis
Z-Scores