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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Proactive Interference
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
2. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Respondent Behavior
Criterion-Related Validity
Growth Needs
Two-Store Model
3. 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.
Static Assessment Approach
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
4. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Conditioning
Behavior Disorders
Symbolic Modeling
Invincibility Fallacy
5. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
General Objectives
Character Education Programs
Models (Instruction)
Allocated Time
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
Method of Loci
Organization
General Objectives
7. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Brainstorming
Means-Ends Analysis
Cooperative Learning
8. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Z-Scores
Reciprocal Teaching
Internal Locus of Control
Visual Impairment
9. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Elaborative Encoding
Method of Loci
Procedural Memory
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
10. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Class Inclusion
Expressive Disorders
Operant Behavior
Standard Error of Estimate
11. 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
Socioeconomic Status
Intermittent Retardation
Visual Impairment
12. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Forgetting
At-Risk Students
Time-Out
Social Inferences
13. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Criterion-Related Validity
Algorithm
14. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Acronym
Feedback Loop
Response-Cost System
15. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Psychometrics
Development
Formative Evaluation
Critical pedagogy
16. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Withitness
Inattention
Schemata
Language System
17. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Criterion-Related Validity
Critical pedagogy
Schemata
18. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Severe and Profound Retardation
External Locus of Control
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
19. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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20. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Constructivism
Task Analysis
Luck
Identity Achievement
21. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Voice Disorders
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Demonstrations
Self-Efficacy
22. 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.
Chunking
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Effort
Anxiety Disorders
23. 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.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Reliability
Analytical Intelligence
Enrichment Programs
24. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Character Education Programs
Instructional Theory
25. 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.
Problem Solving
Ability
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Hyperactivity
26. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Echoic Storage Register
Morphemes
Perception
Inner Speech
27. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Phonology
Human Needs Theory
28. 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.
Analytical Intelligence
Specific Learning Outcomes
Transformation
Foreclosure
29. 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
Two-Store Model
Human Needs Theory
Elaboration
Cooperative Learning
30. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Decay
Long-Term Memory
Teaching Efficacy
31. The total length of the class.
Social Cognition
Epilepsy
Scheduled Time
Educational Goals
32. 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).
Engaged Time
Deficiency Needs
Cooing
Practical Intelligence
33. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Test-Retest Reliability
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
34. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Conservation
Task Analysis
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Elaborative Encoding
35. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Behavior Disorders
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Cultural Differences Theories
Synthesized Modeling
36. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Two-sigma problem
Gender Identity
Psychometrics
Reliability
37. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Forgetting
Means-Ends Analysis
Achievement Motivation
Criterion-Referenced Testing
38. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Generalized Reinforcer
Growth Needs
Development
Retrieval
39. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Mental Retardation
Social Inferences
Contingency Contracting
40. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Effort
Inner Speech
Public Law 94-142
41. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Generalized Reinforcer
Jigsaw II
Babbling
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
42. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Retroactive Interference
Gender Bias
Anxiety Disorders
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
43. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Practical Intelligence
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Human Needs Theory
IDEAL Strategy
44. 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
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Metacognition
Planned Ignoring
45. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Clustering
Psychomotor Objectives
Conservation
46. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Rehearsal
Metacognition
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Subschemata
47. 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
Behavior Disorders
Generative learning
Invincibility Fallacy
Motivation
48. 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.
Corporal Punishment
Object-Relations Theory
At-Risk Students
Semantic Memory
49. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Identity Diffusion
Character
Means-Ends Analysis
attrition
50. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Active teaching
Algorithm
Brainstorming
Norm-Referenced Testing