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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Analytical Intelligence
Gifted and Talented Children
2. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Subschemata
Severe and Profound Retardation
Heuristics
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
3. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Formative Evaluation
Educational Goals
Character Education Programs
4. 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
Working-Backward Strategy
Growth Needs
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Mastery Grading Scales
5. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Test-Retest Reliability
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Expressive Disorders
Critical pedagogy
6. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Direct Modeling
Echoic Storage Register
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
7. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Task Analysis
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Pragmatics
8. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Clustering
Schemata
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Articulation Difficulties
9. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Psychomotor Objectives
attrition
Hearing Impairment
Percentile Scores
10. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Predictive Validity
Achievement Test Battery
11. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Exceptional Learners
Internalization
Face Validity
12. 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)
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Phonology
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
13. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Proactive Interference
Effort
Mild Retardation
Working-Backward Strategy
14. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Expected Outcomes
Extrinsic Motivation
Vicarious Learning
Descriptive Statistics
15. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Validity
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Reversibility
16. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Planned Ignoring
Cultural Deficit Theories
Direct Modeling
IDEAL Strategy
17. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Holophrastic Speech
Mental Retardation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Criterion-Referenced Testing
18. Relating current information with previous learning.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Means-Ends Analysis
Enrichment Programs
Analogies
19. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Cooing
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Type-S Conditioning
Growth Needs
20. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Jigsaw II
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Transitivity
Moratorium
21. 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.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Exhibition
Difficulty of the Task
Questioning Techniques
22. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Expected Outcomes
Foreclosure
Mental Retardation
Invincibility Fallacy
23. 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.
T-Scores
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Psychomotor Objectives
Morphemes
24. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Centration
Reliability
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Semantics
25. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Triarchic Theory
Critical pedagogy
Forgetting
Expository Teaching
26. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Achievement Tests
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Visual Impairment
Object-Relations Theory
27. 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
Simple Moral Education Programs
Mastery Learning
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Pivotal Response Therapy
28. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Allocated Time
Phonemes
Predictive Validity
Transformation
29. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Forgetting
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Demonstrations
Mastery Grading Scales
30. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Normal Distribution
Personal Fable
Anxiety Disorders
31. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Hyperactivity
Exceptional Learners
Seriation
Development
32. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Moderate Retardation
Moratorium
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
33. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Intrinsic Motivation
Practical Intelligence
34. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Iconic Storage Register
Behavior Disorders
Motivation
35. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Type-R Conditioning
Ability
Problem Solving
Academic Learning Time
36. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Behavior Disorders
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Analytical Intelligence
37. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Group Consequences
Practical Intelligence
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Aptitude Tests
38. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Exceptional Learners
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Attribution Theory
39. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Reciprocal Determinism
Reading
Allocated Time
Data-Driven Models
40. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Keyword
Instruction
Exhibition
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
41. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Transformation
Pedagogy
Method of Loci
42. 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
Taxonomy
Working-Backward Strategy
Encoding
43. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Practical Intelligence
Test Bias
Conventional Morality
Code Emphasis Strategy
44. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Mental Retardation
Long-Term Memory
Behavior Disorders
Mnemonic Devices
45. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Gender Identity
Language Experience Strategy
46. 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.
Allocated Time
Language Experience Strategy
Portfolio
Shaping
47. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Elaboration
Secondary Reinforcer
Inner Speech
Retroactive Interference
48. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Type-S Conditioning
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
49. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Voice Disorders
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Forgetting
50. 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.
Exhibition
Seriation
IDEAL Strategy
Human Needs Theory