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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Stability
Syntax
Reversibility
2. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Token Economy
Instructional Objectives
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
3. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Mental Retardation
Transitivity
Reading
Anxiety Disorders
4. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Social Inferences
Functional Fixedness
Pragmatics
Reversibility
5. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Internalization
Algorithm
Anxiety Disorders
Dynamic Assessment Approach
6. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Pervasive Retardation
Learned Helplessness
Conditioning
Reliability
7. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Cultural Differences Theories
Tracking
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Performance Grading Scales
8. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Difficulty of the Task
Concept-Driven Models
Personal Fable
Exceptional Learners
9. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Achievement Motivation
Subschemata
Premack Principle
Inattention
10. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Secondary Reinforcer
Observational Learning
Code Emphasis Strategy
11. 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
Contingency Contracting
Reciprocal Teaching
Descriptive Statistics
12. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Validity
Concurrent Validity
Constructivism
Contingency Contracting
13. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Static Assessment Approach
Reciprocal Teaching
At-Risk Students
14. 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
Receptive Language Disorders
Models (Instruction)
Social Learning and Expectancy
15. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Conditioning
Learned Helplessness
Exhibition
Exceptional Learners
16. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Self-Efficacy
Engaged Time
Academic Learning Time
Inner Speech
17. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Expository Advance Organizers
Predictive Validity
Long-Term Memory
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
18. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Metacognition
Public Law 94-142
Premack Principle
Mental Retardation
19. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Operant Behavior
Instructional Objectives
Academic Learning Time
20. 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.
Elaborative Encoding
Seriation
Instructional Objectives
Object-Relations Theory
21. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Planned Ignoring
Iconic Storage Register
Primary Reinforcer
22. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
At-Risk Students
Attention
Reliability
Intermittent Retardation
23. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Symbolic Modeling
Pervasive Retardation
Sensory Register
24. 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).
T-Scores
Accelerated Programs
Models (Instruction)
Public Law 94-142
25. How capable one actually is.
Real Self-Efficacy
Achievement Test Battery
Cooperative Learning
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
26. 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.
Test Bias
IDEAL Strategy
Keyword
Semantic Memory
27. 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.
Pervasive Retardation
Hearing Impairment
Language System
Conservation
28. 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.
Token Economy
Attention
Teaching Efficacy
Identity Diffusion
29. 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.
Stability
Learning Disability
Limited Retardation
Object-Relations Theory
30. 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
Social Learning and Expectancy
Retrieval
Effort
Attribution Theory
31. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Reciprocal Determinism
Retroactive Interference
General Exploratory Activities
Cooperative Learning
32. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Active teaching
Direct Modeling
Face Validity
Luck
33. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Identity
Dyslexia
Law of Effect
34. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Personal Fable
Exhibition
Exceptional Learners
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
35. 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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36. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Taxonomy
Psychomotor Objectives
Synthesized Modeling
Classification
37. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Derived Score
Invincibility Fallacy
Fluency Disorders
Concept-Driven Models
38. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Seriation
Mastery Learning
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
39. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Object-Relations Theory
Foreclosure
Gifted and Talented Children
Law of Effect
40. 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.
Secondary Reinforcer
Whole Language Approach
Educational Psychology
Student Team Achievement Decisions
41. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Criterion-Related Validity
Cooing
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Contingency Contracting
42. The total length of the class.
Synthetic Intelligence
Scheduled Time
Inclusion
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
43. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Dyslexia
Operant Behavior
Specific Learning Outcomes
Brainstorming
44. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Preconventional Morality
Seriation
Elaborative Encoding
Symbolic Modeling
45. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Fluency Disorders
Planned Ignoring
Pragmatics
Means-Ends Analysis
46. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Preconventional Morality
Attention
Maturation
Semantic Memory
47. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Concurrent Validity
Luck
Extensive Retardation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
48. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Operant Behavior
Content Validity
Algorithm
49. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Content Validity
Assertive Discipline
Active teaching
Episodic Memory
50. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Cooing
Epilepsy
Invincibility Fallacy
Content Validity