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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Maturation
Descriptive Grading Scales
Test Bias
Impulsivity
2. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Achievement Test Battery
Synthesized Modeling
Analytical Intelligence
3. 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
Learning Disability
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Self-Regulation
Guided Discovery
4. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Retrieval
Simple Moral Education Programs
Acronym
External Locus of Control
5. The study of how students learn and develop.
Foreclosure
Educational Psychology
Descriptive Statistics
Synthetic Intelligence
6. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Withitness
Human Needs Theory
7. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
Community-Based Education Programs
Mild Retardation
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Analogies
8. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Allocated Time
Summative Evaluation
Deficiency Needs
Extensive Retardation
9. 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
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Functional Fixedness
10. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Social Cognition
Phonemes
Affective Objectives
Mnemonic Devices
11. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Triarchic Theory
Generalized Reinforcer
Preconventional Morality
12. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Conditioning
Elaboration
Cultural Deficit Theories
Identity
13. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Functional Fixedness
Cognitive Objectives
14. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Normal Distribution
Descriptive Statistics
Token Economy
Iconic Storage Register
15. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Symbolic Modeling
Cultural Differences Theories
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
16. 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.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Holophrastic Speech
Impulsivity
Concept-Driven Models
17. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Questioning Techniques
At-Risk Students
Learning Disability
Classification
18. 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
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Heuristics
Babbling
Reciprocal Determinism
19. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Conditioning
Gender Identity
Object-Relations Theory
Fluency Disorders
20. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Response Set
Psychometrics
Learning Disability
Receptive Language Disorders
21. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Character Education Programs
Simple Moral Education Programs
Normal Distribution
Metacognition
22. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Holophrastic Speech
Direct Modeling
Secondary Reinforcer
Individual and Small-Group Activities
23. 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.
Means-Ends Analysis
Criterion-Related Validity
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Hyperactivity
24. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Normal Distribution
Norm Group
Jigsaw II
Descriptive Statistics
25. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Gifted and Talented Children
Models (Observational Learning)
Holophrastic Speech
26. 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.
Identity
Transformation
Epilepsy
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
27. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Gender Bias
Forgetting
28. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Derived Score
Self-Determination Theory
Internalization
Syntax
29. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Secondary Reinforcer
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
30. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Reliability
Active teaching
Anxiety Disorders
Pivotal Response Therapy
31. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Motivation
Sensory Register
Generative learning
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
32. 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
Self-Efficacy
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Sensory Register
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
33. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Models (Instruction)
Exhibition
Practical Intelligence
Simple Moral Education Programs
34. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Foreclosure
Anxiety Disorders
Conditioning
Heuristics
35. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Reinforcer
Responsibility
Babbling
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
36. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Identity
Retrieval
Contingency Contracting
Social Inferences
37. How relevant a test is at face value.
Face Validity
Triarchic Theory
Analogies
Voice Disorders
38. 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.
IDEAL Strategy
Norm-Referenced Testing
Synthesized Modeling
Encoding
39. 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 (
Models (Instruction)
At-Risk Students
Attribution Theory
Postconventional Morality
40. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Gender Bias
Summative Evaluation
Foreclosure
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
41. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Metacognition
General Objectives
Questioning Techniques
Educational Goals
42. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Holophrastic Speech
Motivation
Phonemes
43. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Babbling
Encoding
Accelerated Programs
Descriptive Grading Scales
44. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Algorithm
Group Training Experiences
Models (Observational Learning)
Carroll's Model of School Learning
45. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Public Law 94-142
Receptive Language Disorders
Impulsivity
Response Set
46. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Simple Moral Education Programs
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
47. 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.
Direct instruction
Reinforcer
Expository Teaching
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
48. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Whole Language Approach
Affective Objectives
49. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Critical pedagogy
Behavior Disorders
External Locus of Control
Percentile Scores
50. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Extensive Retardation
Questioning Techniques
Pedagogy