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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Operant Behavior
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Self-Regulation
2. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Instructional Theory
External Locus of Control
Class Inclusion
3. 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.
Instructional Objectives
Keyword
Subschemata
Identity Achievement
4. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Effort
Cooperative Learning
Intermittent Retardation
5. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Character
Affective Objectives
Encoding
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
6. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Transfer of Information
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Identity Achievement
7. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Episodic Memory
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Exhibition
Personal Fable
8. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Proactive Interference
Elaborative Encoding
Morphemes
Models (Instruction)
9. How relevant a test is at face value.
Face Validity
Learning Disabilities
Standard Error of Estimate
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
10. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Gender Bias
Extensive Retardation
Contingency Contracting
Z-Scores
11. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Shaping
Law of Effect
Static Assessment Approach
Perception
12. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Summative Evaluation
Generalized Reinforcer
Conditioning
Constructivism
13. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Foreclosure
Two-sigma problem
Reciprocal Teaching
Rehearsal
14. 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.
Task Analysis
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Social Learning and Expectancy
15. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
Constructivism
Performance Grading Scales
Whole Language Approach
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
16. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Time-Out
Functional Fixedness
Generative learning
17. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
External Locus of Control
Two-Store Model
Method of Loci
Aptitude Tests
18. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Planned Ignoring
Primary Reinforcer
Academic Learning Time
Invincibility Fallacy
19. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Identity
Educational Goals
Social Cognition
Algorithm
20. 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.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Reciprocal Determinism
Moderate Retardation
Portfolio
21. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Mastery Learning
Static Assessment Approach
Means-Ends Analysis
22. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Heuristics
Psychometrics
Procedural Memory
Percentile Scores
23. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Community-Based Education Programs
Derived Score
Intrinsic Motivation
24. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Organization
Seriation
Practical Intelligence
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
25. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Educational Psychology
Conventional Morality
Sensory Register
Dynamic Assessment Approach
26. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
Normal Distribution
Withitness
General Objectives
Inclusion
27. 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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28. 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).
Psychomotor Objectives
Metacognition
Public Law 94-142
Cooing
29. 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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30. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Iconic Storage Register
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Allocated Time
Learned Helplessness
31. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Social Learning and Expectancy
Phonology
32. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Functional Fixedness
Cultural Deficit Theories
Mastery Grading Scales
33. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Social Inferences
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Voice Disorders
34. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Specific Learning Outcomes
Means-Ends Analysis
Engaged Time
35. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Expressive Disorders
Jigsaw II
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Learning Disability
36. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Character Education Programs
Withitness
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Communication
37. 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
Cooing
Attribution Theory
Questioning Techniques
Cultural Differences Theories
38. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Stability
Development
Centration
Direct Modeling
39. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Internal Locus of Control
Schemata
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Epilepsy
40. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
IDEAL Strategy
Feedback Loop
Schemata
Identity Diffusion
41. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Norm Group
Moderate Retardation
Intrinsic Motivation
42. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Stability
Reliability
Response-Cost System
43. The total length of the class.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Scheduled Time
Hearing Impairment
Effort
44. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Synthesized Modeling
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Withitness
Exhibition
45. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Internalization
Primary Reinforcer
Semantics
46. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Identity
Affective Objectives
Development
Preconventional Morality
47. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
T-Scores
Withitness
Class Inclusion
Pivotal Response Therapy
48. 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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49. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Seriation
Mental Retardation
Self-Regulation
Motivation
50. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Code Emphasis Strategy
Type-R Conditioning
Triarchic Theory
Gifted and Talented Children