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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Validity
Criterion-Referenced Testing
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Reinforcer
2. The total length of the class.
Object-Relations Theory
Scheduled Time
Mastery Grading Scales
Feedback Loop
3. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Seriation
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Observational Learning
4. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Cultural Differences Theories
Fluency Disorders
Internal Locus of Control
Pivotal Response Therapy
5. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Primary Reinforcer
Language Experience Strategy
Epilepsy
Operant Behavior
6. 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.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Gifted and Talented Children
Chunking
7. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Mental Retardation
Method of Loci
Social Cognition
Intermittent Retardation
8. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Mnemonic Devices
Observational Learning
Reliability
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
9. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Assertive Discipline
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Holophrastic Speech
Comparative Advance Organizers
10. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Contingency Contracting
Cooing
Whole Language Approach
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
11. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Psychometrics
Exhibition
Engaged Time
Visual Impairment
12. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hearing Impairment
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Respondent Behavior
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
13. 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).
Self-Efficacy
Deficiency Needs
Enrichment Programs
Retroactive Interference
14. 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.
Validity
Analytical Intelligence
Test Bias
Gender Identity
15. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Test-Retest Reliability
Feedback Loop
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
16. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Allocated Time
Extrinsic Motivation
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Development
17. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Transitivity
Construct Validity
18. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Social Inferences
Long-Term Memory
19. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Descriptive Statistics
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Demonstrations
Formative Evaluation
20. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Personal Fable
Syntax
Exhibition
Pervasive Retardation
21. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Retrieval
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Procedural Memory
22. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Character
Normal Distribution
attrition
23. 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).
Voice Disorders
Conventional Morality
Encoding
Instructional Theory
24. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Content Validity
Class Inclusion
Descriptive Statistics
25. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Keyword
Real Self-Efficacy
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
26. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Whole Language Approach
Means-Ends Analysis
Deficiency Needs
Steiner-Waldorf Education
27. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Concurrent Validity
Secondary Reinforcer
Syntax
Expressive Disorders
28. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Learned Helplessness
Clustering
Mastery Learning
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
29. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Planned Ignoring
Automaticity
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Whole Language Approach
30. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Group Consequences
Episodic Memory
Limited Retardation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
31. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Community-Based Education Programs
Face Validity
Educational Goals
Decay
32. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Morphemes
Object-Relations Theory
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
33. 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.
Direct instruction
Percentile Scores
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Contingency Contracting
34. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Language Experience Strategy
Identity Achievement
Specific Learning Outcomes
Code Emphasis Strategy
35. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Test-Retest Reliability
Demonstrations
Advance Organizer
Questioning Techniques
36. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Cultural Differences Theories
Metacognition
Reversibility
Premack Principle
37. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Questioning Techniques
Learned Helplessness
Expository Advance Organizers
Perception
38. The sensory register for auditory information.
Group Training Experiences
Echoic Storage Register
Premack Principle
Specific Learning Outcomes
39. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Demonstrations
Functional Fixedness
Retroactive Interference
Operant Behavior
40. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Self-Regulation
Secondary Reinforcer
Cognitive Objectives
Code Emphasis Strategy
41. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Sensory Register
Learning Disability
Organization
Response Set
42. Relating current information with previous learning.
Analogies
Real Self-Efficacy
Epilepsy
Elaborative Encoding
43. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Concurrent Validity
44. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
External Locus of Control
Hyperactivity
Observational Learning
45. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Instructional Theory
Stability
Class Inclusion
Invincibility Fallacy
46. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Conditioning
Reliability
Law of Effect
47. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Real Self-Efficacy
Transfer of Information
Portfolio
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
48. 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.
Expressive Disorders
Seriation
Inner Speech
Schemata
49. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Intrinsic Motivation
Functional Fixedness
50. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Personal Fable
Impulsivity
Self-Regulation
Centration
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