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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Anxiety Disorders
Hyperactivity
Type-R Conditioning
Gender Bias
2. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Conservation
Acronym
Mastery Grading Scales
Dynamic Assessment Approach
3. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Norm Group
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Models (Observational Learning)
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
4. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Respondent Behavior
Questioning Techniques
Babbling
5. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Reversibility
Two-sigma problem
Models (Observational Learning)
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
6. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Synthetic Intelligence
Iconic Storage Register
Automaticity
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
7. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Content Validity
Learned Helplessness
Corporal Punishment
8. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Inattention
Static Assessment Approach
Gender Role
Human Needs Theory
9. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Mental Retardation
Concurrent Validity
Transformation
Forgetting
10. Those one observes.
T-Scores
Models (Observational Learning)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Severe and Profound Retardation
11. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Semantics
Cooperative Learning
Heuristics
12. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Expected Outcomes
Syntax
Direct Modeling
Encoding
13. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Method of Loci
General Exploratory Activities
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
14. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Vicarious Learning
Generalized Reinforcer
Reinforcer
Identity
15. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Mnemonic Devices
Models (Instruction)
Pervasive Retardation
16. 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.
Hyperactivity
Attention
Synthesized Modeling
Analytical Intelligence
17. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Constructivism
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Reliability
Morphemes
18. 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.
Cooperative Learning
Maturation
Learning Disabilities
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
19. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Epilepsy
Learned Helplessness
Social Learning and Expectancy
20. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Premack Principle
Self-Efficacy
Mnemonic Devices
Concept-Driven Models
21. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Reciprocal Determinism
Retrieval
Semantic Memory
Mastery Learning
22. 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
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Method of Loci
Social Learning and Expectancy
23. The total length of the class.
Chunking
Scheduled Time
Conventional Morality
Functional Fixedness
24. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Gender Role
Confidence Interval
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
25. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Models (Observational Learning)
Reciprocal Teaching
26. 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
Attribution Theory
Limited Retardation
Triarchic Theory
Psychomotor Objectives
27. How relevant a test is at face value.
Planned Ignoring
Face Validity
Procedural Memory
Mastery Grading Scales
28. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Advance Organizer
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Subschemata
Self-Regulation
29. 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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30. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Exhibition
Triarchic Theory
Critical pedagogy
Intermittent Retardation
31. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Critical pedagogy
Self-Determination Theory
Confidence Interval
Psychometrics
32. 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
Symbolic Modeling
Hearing Impairment
Working or Short-Term Memory
Personal Fable
33. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Pragmatics
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Effort
34. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Attribution Theory
General Exploratory Activities
35. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Procedural Memory
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Reliability
Type-S Conditioning
36. 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
Identity Achievement
Pervasive Retardation
Metacognition
37. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Cultural Differences Theories
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Postconventional Morality
Educational Goals
38. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Withitness
Constructivism
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
39. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Maturation
Student Team Achievement Decisions
IDEAL Strategy
Class Inclusion
40. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Algorithm
Engaged Time
Voice Disorders
41. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Teaching Efficacy
Schemata
Pedagogy
Cultural Differences Theories
42. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Generative learning
Response Set
Algorithm
Voice Disorders
43. The sensory register for visual information.
Cognitive Objectives
T-Scores
Criterion-Related Validity
Iconic Storage Register
44. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Standard Error of Estimate
Ability
Absolute Grading Standards
Symbolic Modeling
45. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Inattention
Models (Instruction)
Specific Learning Outcomes
46. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Social Inferences
Inner Speech
Echoic Storage Register
Inclusion
47. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Reversibility
Group Training Experiences
Internal Locus of Control
48. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Class Inclusion
Invincibility Fallacy
Behavioral Theory
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
49. 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.
Absolute Grading Standards
Respondent Behavior
Contingency Contracting
Advance Organizer
50. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Expository Advance Organizers
Scheduled Time
Concept-Driven Models
Predictive Validity