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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Forgetting
Taxonomy
Retroactive Interference
Class Inclusion
2. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Standard Error of Estimate
3. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Primary Reinforcer
Practical Intelligence
Pivotal Response Therapy
Social Inferences
4. 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.
Assertive Discipline
Psychomotor Objectives
General Objectives
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
5. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Classification
Social Cognition
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Primary Reinforcer
6. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Morphemes
Retrieval
Mild Retardation
7. 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.
Language Experience Strategy
Cultural Differences Theories
Pervasive Retardation
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
8. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Aptitude Tests
Extrinsic Motivation
Means-Ends Analysis
Practical Intelligence
9. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.
Exceptional Learners
Transfer of Information
Aptitude Tests
Absolute Grading Standards
10. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Analytical Intelligence
Chunking
Difficulty of the Task
Gender Identity
11. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Withitness
Task Analysis
Elaborative Encoding
Gender Bias
12. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Law of Effect
Subschemata
Learning Disabilities
Cultural Differences Theories
13. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Morphemes
Group Consequences
Achievement Motivation
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
14. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Attribution Theory
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Phonics Approach
Personal Fable
15. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Mastery Grading Scales
Mental Retardation
Human Needs Theory
16. The study of how students learn and develop.
Epilepsy
Reversibility
Educational Psychology
Syntax
17. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Retroactive Interference
Formative Evaluation
Functional Fixedness
General Objectives
18. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Jigsaw II
Construct Validity
19. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Learning Disabilities
Direct instruction
Sensory Register
20. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Exhibition
Learned Helplessness
Expressive Disorders
21. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Socioeconomic Status
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Anxiety Disorders
Accelerated Programs
22. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Descriptive Grading Scales
Analogies
23. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Personal Fable
Concurrent Validity
Models (Observational Learning)
Normal Distribution
24. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
IDEAL Strategy
Episodic Memory
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Predictive Validity
25. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Episodic Memory
Educational Psychology
Z-Scores
26. 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
Semantics
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Norm-Referenced Testing
Active teaching
27. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Conditioning
Semantics
Syntax
Centration
28. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Self-Regulation
Primary Reinforcer
Descriptive Statistics
Cooing
29. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Syntax
Pedagogy
Perception
30. 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
Critical pedagogy
Validity
Babbling
Pivotal Response Therapy
31. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Aptitude Tests
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Identity Achievement
Invincibility Fallacy
32. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
Growth Needs
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Affective Objectives
Percentile Scores
33. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Time-Out
Models (Instruction)
Cultural Differences Theories
Proactive Interference
34. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Test-Retest Reliability
Hearing Impairment
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Keyword
35. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Identity Diffusion
Functional Fixedness
At-Risk Students
Cognitive Objectives
36. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Mental Retardation
Cultural Deficit Theories
Language System
37. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Inclusion
Elaborative Encoding
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Contingency Contracting
38. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Sensory Register
Problem Solving
At-Risk Students
Metacognition
39. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
External Locus of Control
Affective Objectives
Guided Discovery
Models (Instruction)
40. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Criterion-Related Validity
Dyslexia
Heuristics
Standard Error of Estimate
41. The total length of the class.
Learning Disabilities
Expository Teaching
Scheduled Time
Confidence Interval
42. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Group Training Experiences
IDEAL Strategy
Moderate Retardation
Social Cognition
43. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Test-Retest Reliability
Formative Evaluation
Severe and Profound Retardation
Confidence Interval
44. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Method of Loci
Growth Needs
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
45. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Impulsivity
Contingency Contracting
Accelerated Programs
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
46. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Stability
Models (Observational Learning)
Severe and Profound Retardation
Forgetting
47. Those one observes.
Two-sigma problem
Models (Observational Learning)
Confidence Interval
Pivotal Response Therapy
48. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Transformation
Mild Retardation
Working or Short-Term Memory
Self-Determination Theory
49. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Reversibility
Questioning Techniques
Dyslexia
Sensory Register
50. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Z-Scores
Portfolio
Pervasive Retardation