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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Synthetic Intelligence
Formative Evaluation
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Transfer of Information
2. 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
Means-Ends Analysis
Phonology
Synthetic Intelligence
3. 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
Working or Short-Term Memory
Educational Goals
Identity Achievement
Gender Role
4. 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
Transformation
Educational Goals
Expected Outcomes
5. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
General Objectives
Taxonomy
Reading
Means-Ends Analysis
6. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Generalized Reinforcer
Mental Retardation
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
7. 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).
Affective Objectives
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Reciprocal Determinism
Deficiency Needs
8. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Learning Disability
Phonics Approach
Task Analysis
Effort
9. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Cultural Differences Theories
Educational Goals
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Hyperactivity
10. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Real Self-Efficacy
Mild Retardation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
11. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Cognitive Objectives
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Hyperactivity
General Exploratory Activities
12. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Instructional Objectives
Primary Reinforcer
Advance Organizer
13. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Instruction
Analogies
Acronym
Critical pedagogy
14. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Teaching Efficacy
Voice Disorders
Operant Behavior
Foreclosure
15. 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
Heuristics
Identity Diffusion
Aptitude Tests
Attribution Theory
16. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Two-sigma problem
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Phonics Approach
Means-Ends Analysis
17. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Communication
Confidence Interval
Receptive Language Disorders
Formative Evaluation
18. 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.
Problem Solving
Behavior Disorders
Inner Speech
Seriation
19. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Learning Disability
Personal Fable
Babbling
Means-Ends Analysis
20. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Type-R Conditioning
Echoic Storage Register
Pervasive Retardation
21. The sensory register for visual information.
Jigsaw II
Construct Validity
Reversibility
Iconic Storage Register
22. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Means-Ends Analysis
Hearing Impairment
23. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Self-Determination Theory
Metacognition
Pivotal Response Therapy
24. 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 -
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Deficiency Needs
Constructivism
25. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Morphemes
Academic Learning Time
Standard Error of Estimate
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
26. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Effort
Simple Moral Education Programs
Normal Distribution
Voice Disorders
27. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Postconventional Morality
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Language Experience Strategy
Long-Term Memory
28. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Enrichment Programs
Specific Learning Outcomes
Reinforcer
Affective Objectives
29. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Hearing Impairment
Severe and Profound Retardation
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
30. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Conservation
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Gender Role
Dual Coding Hypothesis
31. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Classification
Visual Impairment
Iconic Storage Register
Dual Coding Hypothesis
32. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Impulsivity
Internal Locus of Control
Questioning Techniques
Class Inclusion
33. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Conditioning
Generative learning
Keyword
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
34. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Proactive Interference
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Premack Principle
35. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Conditioning
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Token Economy
Group Training Experiences
36. 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.
Learned Helplessness
Visual Impairment
Impulsivity
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
37. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Concept-Driven Models
Withitness
Attention
Object-Relations Theory
38. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Task Analysis
Pedagogy
Classification
Learning Disabilities
39. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Affective Objectives
Mastery Grading Scales
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Academic Learning Time
40. Internalized self-talk.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Gender Role
Inner Speech
Planned Ignoring
41. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Educational Goals
Stability
Specific Learning Outcomes
Personal Fable
42. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Reversibility
Organization
Intrinsic Motivation
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
43. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Problem Solving
Descriptive Grading Scales
Scheduled Time
Human Needs Theory
44. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Whole Language Approach
Cultural Differences Theories
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Mental Retardation
45. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Expository Teaching
Clustering
Performance Grading Scales
46. 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.
Conservation
Fluency Disorders
Semantic Memory
Intrinsic Motivation
47. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Forgetting
Content Validity
48. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Subschemata
Symbolic Modeling
Inclusion
Phonics Approach
49. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Response Set
Group Training Experiences
Conditioning
Internalization
50. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Gender Bias
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Models (Instruction)
Percentile Scores