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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Community-Based Education Programs
Reliability
Reading
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
2. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Internal Locus of Control
Type-R Conditioning
Concept-Driven Models
Feedback Loop
3. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Public Law 94-142
Triarchic Theory
Centration
Articulation Difficulties
4. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Critical pedagogy
Assertive Discipline
Educational Psychology
Predictive Validity
5. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Forgetting
Specific Learning Outcomes
Dual Coding Hypothesis
6. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Academic Learning Time
Comparative Advance Organizers
7. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Planned Ignoring
Conventional Morality
Intrinsic Motivation
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
8. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Predictive Validity
At-Risk Students
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Symbolic Modeling
9. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Public Law 94-142
Anxiety Disorders
Intermittent Retardation
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
10. 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.
Public Law 94-142
Time-Out
Formative Evaluation
Encoding
11. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Semantic Memory
Individual and Small-Group Activities
attrition
Feedback Loop
12. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Time-Out
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Real Self-Efficacy
13. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Metacognition
Extensive Retardation
Derived Score
Personal Fable
14. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Two-Store Model
Corporal Punishment
Brainstorming
Inclusion
15. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Response-Cost System
Language System
Gender Bias
16. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Pedagogy
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Moratorium
17. 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)
Steiner-Waldorf Education
IDEAL Strategy
Behavior Disorders
18. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Social Inferences
Phonology
Maturation
Derived Score
19. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int
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20. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Phonology
IDEAL Strategy
Voice Disorders
Mnemonic Devices
21. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Metacognition
Cooperative Learning
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Heuristics
22. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Tracking
Aptitude Tests
Active teaching
Accelerated Programs
23. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Time-Out
Maturation
Phonics Approach
24. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Cognitive Objectives
Class Inclusion
Engaged Time
Planned Ignoring
25. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Scheduled Time
Synthesized Modeling
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Ability
26. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Pragmatics
Conditioning
Means-Ends Analysis
Working-Backward Strategy
27. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Gifted and Talented Children
Pivotal Response Therapy
Exhibition
T-Scores
28. The study of the meaning behind words.
Forgetting
Character
Syntax
Semantics
29. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Method of Loci
Means-Ends Analysis
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Subschemata
30. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Effort
Exceptional Learners
Affective Objectives
Enrichment Programs
31. 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.
Corporal Punishment
Problem Solving
Phonemes
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
32. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Echoic Storage Register
Reversibility
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Responsibility
33. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Socioeconomic Status
Long-Term Memory
Stability
Primary Reinforcer
34. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Gender Role
Performance Grading Scales
Elaborative Encoding
35. 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.
Enrichment Programs
Instructional Theory
Analytical Intelligence
Phonemes
36. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Mnemonic Devices
Reading
Norm Group
Accelerated Programs
37. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Procedural Memory
Algorithm
38. 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.
Elaborative Encoding
Time-Out
Self-Efficacy
Luck
39. 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.
Active teaching
Shaping
Phonics Approach
Intermittent Retardation
40. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Instruction
Subschemata
Hearing Impairment
Portfolio
41. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Pragmatics
Functional Fixedness
Two-Store Model
42. 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.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Response-Cost System
Tracking
Shaping
43. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Advance Organizer
Long-Term Memory
Preconventional Morality
44. 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
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Z-Scores
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Taxonomy
45. 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.
Static Assessment Approach
Data-Driven Models
Assertive Discipline
Transformation
46. 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.
Identity Diffusion
Identity
Descriptive Grading Scales
Standard Error of Estimate
47. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Semantics
External Locus of Control
Limited Retardation
Cooperative Learning
48. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Two-sigma problem
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Teaching Efficacy
Keyword
49. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Percentile Scores
At-Risk Students
Algorithm
Means-Ends Analysis
50. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Constructivism
Severe and Profound Retardation
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Maintenance Bilingual Programs