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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Difficulty of the Task
Time-Out
Intermittent Retardation
Psychomotor Objectives
2. How capable one actually is.
Type-S Conditioning
Real Self-Efficacy
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
3. 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.
Synthetic Intelligence
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Socioeconomic Status
Comparative Advance Organizers
4. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Responsibility
Phonics Approach
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
5. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Construct Validity
Instruction
Working or Short-Term Memory
Gender Identity
6. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Limited Retardation
Reading
Learning Disability
Expository Advance Organizers
7. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Achievement Tests
Inattention
Expressive Disorders
Accelerated Programs
8. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Pedagogy
Jigsaw II
Expressive Disorders
Whole Language Approach
9. 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
Transitivity
Instructional Theory
Direct instruction
Working-Backward Strategy
10. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Predictive Validity
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
11. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Fluency Disorders
Contingency Contracting
Generative learning
Simple Moral Education Programs
12. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Active teaching
Hyperactivity
Maturation
Secondary Reinforcer
13. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Centration
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Dyslexia
Dual Coding Hypothesis
14. 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.
Behavior Disorders
Centration
Expected Outcomes
Shaping
15. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
T-Scores
Reversibility
Inclusion
Group Consequences
16. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Mental Retardation
Internalization
Effort
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
17. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
Performance Grading Scales
Response Set
Time-Out
Semantic Memory
18. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Validity
Aptitude Tests
Norm Group
19. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
20. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Mastery Learning
Heuristics
Brainstorming
Steiner-Waldorf Education
21. 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.
Class Inclusion
Educational Psychology
Postconventional Morality
Guided Discovery
22. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Inclusion
attrition
Guided Discovery
23. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Impulsivity
Type-R Conditioning
Task Analysis
Exhibition
24. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Law of Effect
Reciprocal Teaching
Expository Teaching
Seriation
25. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Means-Ends Analysis
Generative learning
Automaticity
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
26. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Accelerated Programs
Jigsaw II
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
27. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Teaching Efficacy
Percentile Scores
Hyperactivity
28. 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.
Constructivism
Luck
Moderate Retardation
Simple Moral Education Programs
29. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Deficiency Needs
Internal Locus of Control
Demonstrations
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
30. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Reading
Scheduled Time
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Retrieval
31. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Concurrent Validity
Performance Grading Scales
Subschemata
Moderate Retardation
32. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Organization
Schemata
Gender Role
Pivotal Response Therapy
33. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Critical pedagogy
Data-Driven Models
Metacognition
Token Economy
34. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hearing Impairment
Primary Reinforcer
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Achievement Test Battery
35. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Responsibility
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
36. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Epilepsy
Engaged Time
Character
Respondent Behavior
37. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Concurrent Validity
Specific Learning Outcomes
Synthesized Modeling
Metacognition
38. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Expository Advance Organizers
Perception
Receptive Language Disorders
Premack Principle
39. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Premack Principle
Conventional Morality
Classification
40. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Psychometrics
Norm Group
Vicarious Learning
Type-R Conditioning
41. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Echoic Storage Register
Receptive Language Disorders
Postconventional Morality
Holophrastic Speech
42. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Moderate Retardation
Voice Disorders
Response-Cost System
Echoic Storage Register
43. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Reciprocal Teaching
Growth Needs
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Attribution Theory
44. 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.
Transitivity
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Criterion-Related Validity
Proactive Interference
45. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Rehearsal
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Corporal Punishment
Babbling
46. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Visual Impairment
Proactive Interference
Expository Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching
47. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Cooing
Generative learning
Reversibility
Functional Fixedness
48. 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.
Language System
Cultural Differences Theories
Schemata
Gifted and Talented Children
49. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Expected Outcomes
Elaborative Encoding
50. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Two-sigma problem
Psychometrics
Moderate Retardation
Hyperactivity