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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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)
Encoding
Stability
Corporal Punishment
2. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Echoic Storage Register
Direct Modeling
Internal Locus of Control
Predictive Validity
3. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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4. 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.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Impulsivity
Assertive Discipline
Identity Diffusion
5. 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).
Echoic Storage Register
Syntax
Identity Diffusion
Deficiency Needs
6. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Phonics Approach
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Epilepsy
Proactive Interference
7. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Direct Modeling
Proactive Interference
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Social Inferences
8. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Type-R Conditioning
Keyword
Identity
Procedural Memory
9. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Intermittent Retardation
Phonemes
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Behavior Disorders
10. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Static Assessment Approach
Cultural Deficit Theories
Internal Locus of Control
Cultural Differences Theories
11. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Expository Advance Organizers
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Development
12. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
At-Risk Students
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Advance Organizer
Expected Outcomes
13. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
At-Risk Students
Forgetting
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
General (or High-Road) Transfer
14. 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 unstable and external to the student.
Luck
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Self-Efficacy
15. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
Procedural Memory
Dyslexia
At-Risk Students
16. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Expected Outcomes
Normal Distribution
Type-R Conditioning
Luck
17. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Iconic Storage Register
Instruction
Aptitude Tests
At-Risk Students
18. The use of physical punishment.
Type-S Conditioning
Corporal Punishment
Socioeconomic Status
Exceptional Learners
19. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Predictive Validity
Observational Learning
Communication
Normal Distribution
20. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
At-Risk Students
Subschemata
Identity Diffusion
Instructional Objectives
21. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Mnemonic Devices
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Normal Distribution
22. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Reinforcer
Observational Learning
Pivotal Response Therapy
23. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Acronym
Learning Disability
Reading
External Locus of Control
24. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Rehearsal
Validity
Forgetting
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
25. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Premack Principle
Transformation
Psychometrics
Task Analysis
26. 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.
Working-Backward Strategy
Encoding
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Student Team Achievement Decisions
27. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Inattention
Self-Efficacy
Acronym
Response Set
28. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
attrition
Type-S Conditioning
Symbolic Modeling
Group Training Experiences
29. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Semantic Memory
Summative Evaluation
Expected Outcomes
Transitivity
30. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Method of Loci
Achievement Test Battery
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Forgetting
31. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Working-Backward Strategy
Primary Reinforcer
Human Needs Theory
Type-S Conditioning
32. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Cognitive Objectives
Enrichment Programs
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Confidence Interval
33. 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.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Impulsivity
Construct Validity
Guided Discovery
34. Those one observes.
Models (Observational Learning)
Feedback Loop
Attention
External Locus of Control
35. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Cultural Differences Theories
Difficulty of the Task
Scheduled Time
36. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Transfer of Information
Self-Regulation
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Identity Diffusion
37. 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).
Growth Needs
Simple Moral Education Programs
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Educational Goals
38. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Retroactive Interference
Data-Driven Models
Attention
Schemata
39. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Expected Outcomes
Feedback Loop
Clustering
40. 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.
Shaping
Conditioning
Reciprocal Determinism
Reinforcer
41. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Test-Retest Reliability
Moderate Retardation
Development
Concept-Driven Models
42. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Articulation Difficulties
Two-Store Model
Psychometrics
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
43. 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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44. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Response-Cost System
Automaticity
Community-Based Education Programs
45. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Assertive Discipline
Echoic Storage Register
Means-Ends Analysis
Transitional Bilingual Programs
46. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Two-sigma problem
Conventional Morality
Foreclosure
Respondent Behavior
47. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Episodic Memory
Norm-Referenced Testing
Expected Outcomes
Forgetting
48. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Validity
Reciprocal Determinism
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Token Economy
49. 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.
Mental Retardation
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Clustering
Conservation
50. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Whole Language Approach
Criterion-Related Validity
General Exploratory Activities
Deficiency Needs
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