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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Pedagogy
Luck
Invincibility Fallacy
2. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Proactive Interference
Foreclosure
Conditioning
3. 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.
Retroactive Interference
Vicarious Learning
Transformation
Gifted and Talented Children
4. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Expected Outcomes
Semantics
Clustering
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
5. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Exhibition
Elaboration
Allocated Time
6. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Foreclosure
Procedural Memory
Ability
Clustering
7. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Descriptive Statistics
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Practical Intelligence
Syntax
8. 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.
Encoding
Gender Bias
Extrinsic Motivation
Cognitive Objectives
9. 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.
Token Economy
Personal Fable
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Pragmatics
10. 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)
Conditioning
Academic Learning Time
Clustering
11. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Direct Modeling
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Pivotal Response Therapy
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
12. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Self-Regulation
Inclusion
Norm Group
Cultural Deficit Theories
13. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Constructivism
Elaboration
Human Needs Theory
Intermittent Retardation
14. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
IDEAL Strategy
Conservation
Development
Limited Retardation
15. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Gender Bias
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
T-Scores
16. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Intermittent Retardation
Semantic Memory
Phonemes
17. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Validity
Group Consequences
Generative learning
Motivation
18. 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
Echoic Storage Register
Normal Distribution
Triarchic Theory
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
19. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Content Validity
Chunking
Reading
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
20. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Luck
Aptitude Tests
Z-Scores
21. 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.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Mental Retardation
Transformation
Descriptive Grading Scales
22. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Extrinsic Motivation
Engaged Time
Character Education Programs
Gender Bias
23. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Automaticity
Seriation
Forgetting
Mental Retardation
24. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Semantic Memory
Norm Group
Cognitive Objectives
Conditioning
25. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Reinforcer
Aptitude Tests
At-Risk Students
Conditioning
26. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Performance Grading Scales
Taxonomy
Extensive Retardation
Constructivism
27. How relevant a test is at face value.
General Objectives
Face Validity
Formative Evaluation
Intermittent Retardation
28. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Intermittent Retardation
Episodic Memory
Two-Store Model
Keyword
29. 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.
Social Inferences
Analytical Intelligence
Standard Error of Estimate
Response Set
30. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Academic Learning Time
Phonemes
Conservation
Mnemonic Devices
31. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Instructional Theory
Direct Modeling
Deficiency Needs
32. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Gifted and Talented Children
Gender Bias
Gender Role
Organization
33. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Voice Disorders
Operant Behavior
Primary Reinforcer
Automaticity
34. 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
Conditioning
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Pivotal Response Therapy
35. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Achievement Tests
Metacognition
Social Cognition
Luck
36. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Human Needs Theory
Direct instruction
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Accelerated Programs
37. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Public Law 94-142
Guided Discovery
Formative Evaluation
38. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Clustering
Seriation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Questioning Techniques
39. 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.
Expository Teaching
Comparative Advance Organizers
Accelerated Programs
Elaborative Encoding
40. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Proactive Interference
Communication
Intrinsic Motivation
Functional Fixedness
41. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Procedural Memory
Perception
Withitness
Iconic Storage Register
42. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Preconventional Morality
Triarchic Theory
43. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Clustering
Planned Ignoring
Phonology
44. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Reading
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Morphemes
Deficiency Needs
45. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Practical Intelligence
Withitness
Deficiency Needs
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
46. 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.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Psychometrics
Limited Retardation
Learned Helplessness
47. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Enrichment Programs
Constructivism
Impulsivity
Luck
48. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Conservation
Constructivism
Phonics Approach
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
49. 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.
Attribution Theory
Summative Evaluation
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Voice Disorders
50. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Self-Regulation
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Time-Out