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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Semantics
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Token Economy
2. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Mild Retardation
Allocated Time
Academic Learning Time
3. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Formative Evaluation
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Teaching Efficacy
Pivotal Response Therapy
4. 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
5. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Language Experience Strategy
Active teaching
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
6. How capable one actually is.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Type-R Conditioning
Real Self-Efficacy
7. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
General Exploratory Activities
Instructional Objectives
Descriptive Statistics
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
8. 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.
Sensory Register
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Behavioral Theory
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
9. 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.
Validity
Gifted and Talented Children
Cultural Deficit Theories
Decay
10. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Contingency Contracting
Hyperactivity
Enrichment Programs
Morphemes
11. 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).
Deficiency Needs
T-Scores
Corporal Punishment
Standard Error of Estimate
12. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Face Validity
Learning Disability
At-Risk Students
13. The use of physical punishment.
Practical Intelligence
Corporal Punishment
Hyperactivity
Ability
14. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Cooperative Learning
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Whole Language Approach
Tracking
15. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Reciprocal Determinism
Student Team Achievement Decisions
16. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Rehearsal
Construct Validity
Time-Out
Cognitive Objectives
17. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Jigsaw II
Brainstorming
Models (Observational Learning)
18. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Behavioral Theory
Advance Organizer
Algorithm
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
19. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Analogies
Specific Learning Outcomes
Chunking
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
20. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Sensory Register
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Voice Disorders
Planned Ignoring
21. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Stability
Phonics Approach
Metacognition
Human Needs Theory
22. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Impulsivity
Behavioral Theory
Instructional Objectives
23. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Mastery Learning
Synthetic Intelligence
Foreclosure
Two-Store Model
24. The study of how students learn and develop.
Semantics
Symbolic Modeling
Subschemata
Educational Psychology
25. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
IDEAL Strategy
Generative learning
Intermittent Retardation
26. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Mental Retardation
Exhibition
Formative Evaluation
Inner Speech
27. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Content Validity
Inclusion
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Means-Ends Analysis
28. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Internalization
Derived Score
Development
Accelerated Programs
29. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Impulsivity
Advance Organizer
Epilepsy
Reading
30. 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.
Shaping
IDEAL Strategy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Communication
31. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Automaticity
Phonology
Expected Outcomes
Growth Needs
32. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Retrieval
Confidence Interval
IDEAL Strategy
Social Cognition
33. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Corporal Punishment
Type-S Conditioning
Phonology
General (or High-Road) Transfer
34. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Retrieval
Synthetic Intelligence
Transfer of Information
Secondary Reinforcer
35. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Language System
Static Assessment Approach
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Episodic Memory
36. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Gender Role
Cognitive Objectives
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Generative learning
37. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Concurrent Validity
Phonemes
Brainstorming
38. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Psychometrics
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Communication
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
39. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Response Set
Social Cognition
Visual Impairment
Achievement Tests
40. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Phonology
Transitivity
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Effort
41. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Static Assessment Approach
Gender Bias
Construct Validity
Conditioning
42. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Mental Retardation
Portfolio
Type-S Conditioning
43. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Socioeconomic Status
Deficiency Needs
Articulation Difficulties
At-Risk Students
44. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Expected Outcomes
Exhibition
Sensory Register
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
45. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Classification
Epilepsy
Code Emphasis Strategy
Mental Retardation
46. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Procedural Memory
Pervasive Retardation
Character
Pivotal Response Therapy
47. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Forgetting
Mnemonic Devices
Rehearsal
Task Analysis
48. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Class Inclusion
Cooing
Subschemata
Psychometrics
49. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Criterion-Related Validity
Metacognition
Achievement Motivation
Mental Retardation
50. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Expository Advance Organizers
Rehearsal
Decay
Portfolio