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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Attribution Theory
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Effort
2. 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).
Deficiency Needs
Conservation
Critical pedagogy
Tracking
3. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Psychomotor Objectives
Demonstrations
Assertive Discipline
Pivotal Response Therapy
4. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Reciprocal Teaching
Stability
Jigsaw II
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
5. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Portfolio
Synthetic Intelligence
Standard Error of Estimate
Validity
6. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Social Cognition
Sensory Register
Analytical Intelligence
Intermittent Retardation
7. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Schemata
Proactive Interference
Conservation
8. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Achievement Motivation
Motivation
Data-Driven Models
Morphemes
9. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Educational Psychology
Transitivity
Triarchic Theory
Generalized Reinforcer
10. How relevant a test is at face value.
Intermittent Retardation
General Exploratory Activities
Face Validity
Transitivity
11. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Extrinsic Motivation
Limited Retardation
Dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Testing
12. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Pragmatics
Corporal Punishment
13. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Self-Regulation
Retrieval
Syntax
Whole Language Approach
14. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Mild Retardation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Expository Teaching
15. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Mastery Grading Scales
Means-Ends Analysis
Centration
16. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
attrition
Advance Organizer
Transformation
Elaboration
17. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Gender Bias
Perception
Moderate Retardation
18. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Object-Relations Theory
Identity Achievement
Iconic Storage Register
Means-Ends Analysis
19. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Socioeconomic Status
Expressive Disorders
Foreclosure
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
20. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Sensory Register
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Achievement Test Battery
Maturation
21. 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.
Functional Fixedness
Extensive Retardation
Observational Learning
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
22. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Socioeconomic Status
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Phonemes
Guided Discovery
23. The total length of the class.
Content Validity
Data-Driven Models
Scheduled Time
Behavior Disorders
24. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Premack Principle
Reciprocal Determinism
Anxiety Disorders
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
25. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Epilepsy
Social Cognition
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Growth Needs
26. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Conditioning
Reversibility
Validity
27. 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
Withitness
Advance Organizer
Responsibility
28. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
Static Assessment Approach
Group Consequences
Foreclosure
29. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Reciprocal Teaching
Law of Effect
Educational Goals
Dynamic Assessment Approach
30. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Learning Disabilities
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Reading
Self-Regulation
31. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Visual Impairment
Shaping
Cooperative Learning
32. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Task Analysis
Accelerated Programs
Character Education Programs
Type-R Conditioning
33. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Behavior Disorders
Community-Based Education Programs
Dyslexia
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
34. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Achievement Motivation
Problem Solving
Social Learning and Expectancy
Elaborative Encoding
35. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Pervasive Retardation
Learning Disability
Preconventional Morality
Character
36. 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
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Whole Language Approach
Internalization
Instructional Objectives
37. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Formative Evaluation
Symbolic Modeling
Learning Disabilities
Mnemonic Devices
38. 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)
Models (Observational Learning)
Internalization
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
39. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Visual Impairment
Exceptional Learners
Motivation
Working-Backward Strategy
40. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Response-Cost System
Seriation
Psychomotor Objectives
Synthesized Modeling
41. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Feedback Loop
Contingency Contracting
Learning Disability
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
42. 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.
Deficiency Needs
Intrinsic Motivation
Direct Modeling
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
43. 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.
Character
Shaping
Specific Learning Outcomes
Brainstorming
44. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Transitivity
Pragmatics
Descriptive Statistics
45. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Whole Language Approach
Hyperactivity
Steiner-Waldorf Education
46. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Cognitive Objectives
Corporal Punishment
Behavioral Theory
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
47. 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.
Models (Instruction)
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Ability
Analytical Intelligence
48. 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.
Instructional Objectives
Specific Learning Outcomes
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Analytical Intelligence
49. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Type-S Conditioning
Social Inferences
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Scheduled Time
50. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Confidence Interval
Psychometrics