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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Instructional Theory
Norm-Referenced Testing
Response Set
Allocated Time
2. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Behavior Disorders
3. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Attribution Theory
attrition
Identity
Demonstrations
4. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Shaping
Gender Identity
Gifted and Talented Children
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
5. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Communication
Affective Objectives
Whole Language Approach
6. An approach to grading where the students are given a numerical score - using either a 10-point or a 7-point grading scale. These scores may be translated into a letter grade or compared to the average score on a test.
Absolute Grading Standards
Language System
Internalization
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
7. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Personal Fable
Centration
Syntax
Learning Disability
8. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Encoding
Aptitude Tests
Elaboration
Organization
9. 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.
Algorithm
Deficiency Needs
Two-Store Model
Keyword
10. 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.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Identity Diffusion
Encoding
Analytical Intelligence
11. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Advance Organizer
Response-Cost System
Long-Term Memory
12. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Concurrent Validity
Confidence Interval
Pragmatics
Reliability
13. 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.
Analytical Intelligence
Type-S Conditioning
Class Inclusion
Social Inferences
14. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Inner Speech
Observational Learning
Respondent Behavior
Mental Retardation
15. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Development
Subschemata
Retrieval
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
16. 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.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Comparative Advance Organizers
Contingency Contracting
Retrieval
17. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Phonemes
Withitness
Encoding
Corporal Punishment
18. 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.
Luck
Socioeconomic Status
Gender Role
Morphemes
19. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Gender Identity
Syntax
Group Consequences
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
20. 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 -
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Intermittent Retardation
Psychomotor Objectives
Type-S Conditioning
21. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Formative Evaluation
Public Law 94-142
Chunking
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
22. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Predictive Validity
Reliability
Content Validity
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
23. 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.
Jigsaw II
Performance Grading Scales
Language Experience Strategy
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
24. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Mnemonic Devices
Comparative Advance Organizers
Attention
Type-S Conditioning
25. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Development
External Locus of Control
Inner Speech
Direct Modeling
26. The study of how students learn and develop.
Educational Psychology
Working-Backward Strategy
Babbling
Response-Cost System
27. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Cultural Differences Theories
Classification
Learning Disabilities
Iconic Storage Register
28. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Conservation
Development
Reciprocal Teaching
Instruction
29. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Learned Helplessness
Scheduled Time
Impulsivity
Reversibility
30. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Advance Organizer
Learned Helplessness
Human Needs Theory
31. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Taxonomy
Allocated Time
Conditioning
Educational Psychology
32. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Phonemes
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Intrinsic Motivation
Planned Ignoring
33. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Face Validity
Procedural Memory
Perception
Norm Group
34. 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
T-Scores
Group Consequences
Attribution Theory
Identity Achievement
35. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Planned Ignoring
Gender Bias
Cognitive Objectives
Deficiency Needs
36. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
At-Risk Students
Automaticity
Difficulty of the Task
37. 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.
Episodic Memory
Character Education Programs
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
38. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Triarchic Theory
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Exhibition
Reading
39. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Aptitude Tests
Effort
Acronym
Impulsivity
40. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Retroactive Interference
Psychometrics
Deficiency Needs
Gifted and Talented Children
41. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Hyperactivity
Extrinsic Motivation
Metacognition
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
42. 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.
Clustering
Psychometrics
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Reinforcer
43. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Elaboration
Difficulty of the Task
Descriptive Statistics
Maturation
44. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Metacognition
Confidence Interval
Limited Retardation
45. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
T-Scores
Mnemonic Devices
Pervasive Retardation
Episodic Memory
46. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Direct Modeling
Heuristics
Transformation
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
47. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Instructional Objectives
Achievement Tests
Law of Effect
48. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Concurrent Validity
Academic Learning Time
Functional Fixedness
49. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Contingency Contracting
Transfer of Information
Accelerated Programs
50. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Portfolio
Mastery Learning
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
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