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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Communication
Analogies
Acronym
Symbolic Modeling
2. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Exceptional Learners
Content Validity
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Epilepsy
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.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Gifted and Talented Children
Keyword
Observational Learning
4. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Time-Out
Class Inclusion
Ability
Content Validity
5. How relevant a test is at face value.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Face Validity
Cooperative Learning
Learning Disability
6. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Visual Impairment
Social Cognition
Mental Retardation
Response Set
7. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Reliability
Accelerated Programs
Z-Scores
Social Cognition
8. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Acronym
Whole Language Approach
Steiner-Waldorf Education
9. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Class Inclusion
Reinforcer
Generative learning
Task Analysis
10. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Social Cognition
Norm Group
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Student Team Achievement Decisions
11. 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 external to the student.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
General Objectives
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Luck
12. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Pervasive Retardation
Test-Retest Reliability
External Locus of Control
Taxonomy
13. Relating current information with previous learning.
Portfolio
Postconventional Morality
Analogies
Inattention
14. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Effort
External Locus of Control
Deficiency Needs
15. 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.
Reciprocal Determinism
Criterion-Related Validity
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
16. 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.
Perception
Gifted and Talented Children
Specific Learning Outcomes
Premack Principle
17. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Norm Group
Models (Observational Learning)
Postconventional Morality
Communication
18. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Anxiety Disorders
Data-Driven Models
Direct Modeling
Expository Teaching
19. 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.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Encoding
Character Education Programs
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
20. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Mild Retardation
Two-sigma problem
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
21. 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.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Long-Term Memory
Reciprocal Determinism
Real Self-Efficacy
22. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Time-Out
Deficiency Needs
Expository Teaching
Transitional Bilingual Programs
23. 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
Object-Relations Theory
Symbolic Modeling
Descriptive Statistics
Pivotal Response Therapy
24. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Transfer of Information
Primary Reinforcer
Schemata
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
25. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Affective Objectives
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Hearing Impairment
Normal Distribution
26. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Reciprocal Teaching
Pivotal Response Therapy
Phonology
Self-Efficacy
27. The use of physical punishment.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Corporal Punishment
Guided Discovery
Perception
28. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Internalization
Invincibility Fallacy
Expected Outcomes
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
29. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
Withitness
Articulation Difficulties
Specific Learning Outcomes
30. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Extrinsic Motivation
Student Team Achievement Decisions
31. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Mild Retardation
Transfer of Information
Organization
Moratorium
32. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Sensory Register
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Semantics
Student Team Achievement Decisions
33. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Portfolio
Development
Operant Behavior
Steiner-Waldorf Education
34. 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.
Episodic Memory
Visual Impairment
Token Economy
Pedagogy
35. 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.
Conventional Morality
Rehearsal
Method of Loci
Internal Locus of Control
36. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Mental Retardation
Articulation Difficulties
Elaborative Encoding
Cultural Deficit Theories
37. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Derived Score
Difficulty of the Task
Achievement Motivation
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
38. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Transformation
Centration
Cultural Deficit Theories
39. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Accelerated Programs
Gender Bias
Subschemata
Object-Relations Theory
40. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Self-Determination Theory
Z-Scores
Corporal Punishment
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
41. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Portfolio
Planned Ignoring
Chunking
42. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Heuristics
Task Analysis
Development
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
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.
Educational Psychology
Limited Retardation
Foreclosure
Socioeconomic Status
44. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Keyword
Babbling
Cultural Differences Theories
At-Risk Students
45. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Concurrent Validity
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Language Experience Strategy
Voice Disorders
46. 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.
Reading
Respondent Behavior
Tracking
Contingency Contracting
47. 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.
Language System
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Iconic Storage Register
Standard Error of Estimate
48. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Social Cognition
Direct instruction
Articulation Difficulties
Inattention
49. 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.
General Objectives
Maturation
Symbolic Modeling
Syntax
50. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Portfolio
Intrinsic Motivation
Preconventional Morality
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
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