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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Classification
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Two-sigma problem
2. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Phonemes
Motivation
Construct Validity
Percentile Scores
3. 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
Phonology
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Norm-Referenced Testing
Triarchic Theory
4. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Instructional Theory
Test Bias
Secondary Reinforcer
Attention
5. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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6. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Norm Group
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Reading
7. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Expressive Disorders
Models (Observational Learning)
Object-Relations Theory
Criterion-Related Validity
8. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Engaged Time
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Inattention
Working-Backward Strategy
9. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Task Analysis
Tracking
Transfer of Information
10. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Gifted and Talented Children
Clustering
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Corporal Punishment
11. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Models (Instruction)
Educational Goals
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
12. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Respondent Behavior
Validity
Achievement Test Battery
Babbling
13. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Expressive Disorders
Effort
Metacognition
Extensive Retardation
14. 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.
Object-Relations Theory
Withitness
Motivation
Questioning Techniques
15. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Expected Outcomes
Working-Backward Strategy
Social Cognition
Vicarious Learning
16. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Taxonomy
Foreclosure
Articulation Difficulties
Type-R Conditioning
17. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Educational Goals
Assertive Discipline
External Locus of Control
Psychometrics
18. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Group Training Experiences
Cultural Differences Theories
Learning Disability
General Objectives
19. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Extensive Retardation
Attention
Validity
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
20. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Articulation Difficulties
Centration
Achievement Motivation
Triarchic Theory
21. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Face Validity
Character Education Programs
Instruction
Construct Validity
22. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Affective Objectives
Severe and Profound Retardation
Responsibility
Content Validity
23. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Feedback Loop
Retroactive Interference
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Direct Modeling
24. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Two-sigma problem
Content Validity
Type-S Conditioning
Validity
25. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Expository Advance Organizers
External Locus of Control
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Group Consequences
26. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Psychomotor Objectives
Identity Achievement
Gender Identity
Performance-Based Test Strategies
27. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Assertive Discipline
Receptive Language Disorders
Mastery Learning
Jigsaw II
28. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Feedback Loop
Long-Term Memory
Specific Learning Outcomes
29. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Psychometrics
Self-Determination Theory
30. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Syntax
Babbling
Dyslexia
Seriation
31. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Instruction
Critical pedagogy
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Vicarious Learning
32. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Metacognition
Stability
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Cooperative Learning
33. 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 stable and external to the student.
Expected Outcomes
Analytical Intelligence
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Difficulty of the Task
34. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Advance Organizer
Summative Evaluation
Withitness
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
35. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Feedback Loop
Aptitude Tests
Syntax
Planned Ignoring
36. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Algorithm
Expected Outcomes
Type-R Conditioning
Dual Coding Hypothesis
37. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Learning Disabilities
Gender Role
Normal Distribution
Attention
38. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Conditioning
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Long-Term Memory
Guided Discovery
39. 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.
Criterion-Related Validity
Keyword
Real Self-Efficacy
Performance Grading Scales
40. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
T-Scores
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Responsibility
Token Economy
41. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Simple Moral Education Programs
Social Inferences
Feedback Loop
42. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Cultural Differences Theories
Impulsivity
Limited Retardation
Content Validity
43. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Premack Principle
Test-Retest Reliability
Attention
Jigsaw II
44. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Data-Driven Models
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
45. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Character
Self-Determination Theory
Communication
Anxiety Disorders
46. 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.
Reciprocal Teaching
Shaping
Conservation
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
47. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Extrinsic Motivation
Attention
Constructivism
Brainstorming
48. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Educational Psychology
Elaborative Encoding
At-Risk Students
Acronym
49. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Impulsivity
Practical Intelligence
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Cognitive Objectives
50. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Semantics
General Exploratory Activities
Derived Score