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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Phonology
Data-Driven Models
2. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Z-Scores
Attribution Theory
Internalization
attrition
3. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Student Team Achievement Decisions
4. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Concept-Driven Models
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Phonics Approach
Criterion-Referenced Testing
5. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Intermittent Retardation
Tracking
Language Experience Strategy
Clustering
6. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Inattention
Direct Modeling
Simple Moral Education Programs
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
7. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Cooing
Transfer of Information
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Ability
8. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Maturation
Semantic Memory
Forgetting
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
9. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Face Validity
Respondent Behavior
Cognitive Objectives
10. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Transitivity
Vicarious Learning
Analytical Intelligence
IDEAL Strategy
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.
Public Law 94-142
Moderate Retardation
Luck
Hearing Impairment
12. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Z-Scores
Character
Invincibility Fallacy
Visual Impairment
13. 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.
Expository Advance Organizers
Transitivity
Object-Relations Theory
Constructivism
14. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Norm Group
Attention
15. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Allocated Time
Extrinsic Motivation
Psychometrics
Guided Discovery
16. 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.
Maturation
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Educational Psychology
17. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Practical Intelligence
Inattention
Construct Validity
Classification
18. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Reliability
Acronym
Phonics Approach
Development
19. 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.
Acronym
Conditioning
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Public Law 94-142
20. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Constructivism
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Reversibility
Phonology
21. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Limited Retardation
Response-Cost System
Cooing
Perception
22. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Social Cognition
Primary Reinforcer
Behavior Disorders
Respondent Behavior
23. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Pervasive Retardation
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Working-Backward Strategy
Behavioral Theory
24. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Norm Group
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Voice Disorders
25. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Severe and Profound Retardation
Specific Learning Outcomes
Feedback Loop
26. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Psychomotor Objectives
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Content Validity
Cognitive Objectives
27. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Inner Speech
Pedagogy
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
28. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Task Analysis
Acronym
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Reliability
29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Engaged Time
Affective Objectives
Comparative Advance Organizers
30. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Public Law 94-142
Chunking
Group Training Experiences
Moderate Retardation
31. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Reading
Construct Validity
Behavior Disorders
Response Set
32. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Procedural Memory
Standard Error of Estimate
Respondent Behavior
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
33. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Type-R Conditioning
Gender Bias
Cultural Differences Theories
Human Needs Theory
34. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Self-Regulation
Jigsaw II
Derived Score
35. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
T-Scores
Vicarious Learning
General Objectives
36. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Transfer of Information
Intermittent Retardation
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Achievement Test Battery
37. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Semantic Memory
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Acronym
Performance-Based Test Strategies
38. The study of how students learn and develop.
Educational Psychology
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
IDEAL Strategy
Enrichment Programs
39. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Encoding
Holophrastic Speech
Social Learning and Expectancy
attrition
40. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Ability
Attribution Theory
Generalized Reinforcer
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
41. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Real Self-Efficacy
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Secondary Reinforcer
42. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
At-Risk Students
Code Emphasis Strategy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Semantic Memory
43. 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
Shaping
Reversibility
Triarchic Theory
Assertive Discipline
44. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Personal Fable
Group Consequences
Enrichment Programs
Expressive Disorders
45. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Self-Determination Theory
Code Emphasis Strategy
Character Education Programs
46. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Normal Distribution
Social Learning and Expectancy
Expository Advance Organizers
Enrichment Programs
47. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Expository Advance Organizers
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Socioeconomic Status
Development
48. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Norm Group
Ability
Direct instruction
Forgetting
49. 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.
Language Experience Strategy
Allocated Time
Elaborative Encoding
Working or Short-Term Memory
50. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Descriptive Statistics
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Hearing Impairment
Semantics