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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Encoding
Reliability
Reinforcer
2. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Heuristics
Direct instruction
Demonstrations
Personal Fable
3. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Subschemata
Social Cognition
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Percentile Scores
4. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Aptitude Tests
Organization
Pivotal Response Therapy
5. 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.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Epilepsy
Group Consequences
Static Assessment Approach
6. 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.
Transformation
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Whole Language Approach
Morphemes
7. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Content Validity
Problem Solving
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
8. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Expressive Disorders
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Seriation
9. 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.
Direct Modeling
Achievement Tests
Automaticity
Instructional Theory
10. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Inclusion
Reversibility
Visual Impairment
Conventional Morality
11. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Iconic Storage Register
Achievement Motivation
Instructional Objectives
Secondary Reinforcer
12. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Derived Score
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Class Inclusion
Performance Grading Scales
13. 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.
Hearing Impairment
Instructional Objectives
Morphemes
Summative Evaluation
14. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Intermittent Retardation
Enrichment Programs
Social Cognition
Organization
15. The sensory register for visual information.
Object-Relations Theory
Iconic Storage Register
Achievement Test Battery
Synthetic Intelligence
16. 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.
Type-S Conditioning
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Voice Disorders
Attribution Theory
17. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Constructivism
Character
Organization
18. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Class Inclusion
Descriptive Grading Scales
Intrinsic Motivation
Encoding
19. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Learning Disabilities
Absolute Grading Standards
Premack Principle
Attention
20. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Intermittent Retardation
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Holophrastic Speech
21. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Attribution Theory
Mental Retardation
Forgetting
Demonstrations
22. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Limited Retardation
Academic Learning Time
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Responsibility
23. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Metacognition
IDEAL Strategy
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
24. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Token Economy
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Echoic Storage Register
Character Education Programs
25. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Character Education Programs
Reliability
Perception
Academic Learning Time
26. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Automaticity
Norm-Referenced Testing
Extrinsic Motivation
27. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Mnemonic Devices
Internalization
Working or Short-Term Memory
Guided Discovery
28. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Phonology
Pedagogy
Construct Validity
Anxiety Disorders
29. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Achievement Tests
Analogies
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Generalized Reinforcer
30. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Behavioral Theory
Test Bias
Foreclosure
External Locus of Control
31. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Automaticity
Whole Language Approach
Cognitive Objectives
Invincibility Fallacy
32. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Schemata
Means-Ends Analysis
Identity Achievement
Stability
33. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Teaching Efficacy
Affective Objectives
At-Risk Students
34. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Norm Group
Absolute Grading Standards
Reinforcer
Communication
35. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Metacognition
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
36. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Engaged Time
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
attrition
37. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Dynamic Assessment Approach
38. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Centration
Instruction
Ability
39. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Acronym
Planned Ignoring
Gender Identity
Direct Modeling
40. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Validity
Schemata
41. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
At-Risk Students
Behavior Disorders
Validity
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
42. 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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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.
Percentile Scores
Affective Objectives
Two-sigma problem
Socioeconomic Status
44. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Inner Speech
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Shaping
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
45. 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 -
Task Analysis
Contingency Contracting
Descriptive Statistics
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
46. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Mild Retardation
Sensory Register
External Locus of Control
Achievement Tests
47. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Response Set
Inner Speech
Gender Bias
Data-Driven Models
48. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Critical pedagogy
Brainstorming
Synthetic Intelligence
49. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Static Assessment Approach
Practical Intelligence
Z-Scores
Exhibition
50. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Concept-Driven Models
Planned Ignoring
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Encoding