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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Derived Score
Personal Fable
Group Training Experiences
Taxonomy
2. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Norm Group
Maturation
Formative Evaluation
Ability
3. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Inner Speech
Phonology
Postconventional Morality
Learning Disability
4. 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.
Difficulty of the Task
Pivotal Response Therapy
Algorithm
Hyperactivity
5. The sensory register for auditory information.
Voice Disorders
Echoic Storage Register
Shaping
Steiner-Waldorf Education
6. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Organization
Chunking
Direct Modeling
Proactive Interference
7. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Critical pedagogy
Time-Out
Group Training Experiences
8. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Mental Retardation
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Class Inclusion
9. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Critical pedagogy
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
10. 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.
Models (Observational Learning)
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Portfolio
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
11. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Task Analysis
Observational Learning
Identity
Engaged Time
12. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Teaching Efficacy
Questioning Techniques
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Ability
13. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Automaticity
Criterion-Related Validity
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Allocated Time
14. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Mental Retardation
Rehearsal
Limited Retardation
15. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Identity
Perception
16. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Difficulty of the Task
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Concurrent Validity
Receptive Language Disorders
17. 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.
Achievement Motivation
Gifted and Talented Children
Responsibility
Community-Based Education Programs
18. 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.
Jigsaw II
Iconic Storage Register
Hyperactivity
Face Validity
19. 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.
Portfolio
Keyword
Synthesized Modeling
Real Self-Efficacy
20. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Achievement Tests
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Percentile Scores
Behavior Disorders
21. 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.
Response-Cost System
Severe and Profound Retardation
Centration
Object-Relations Theory
22. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Validity
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Chunking
Critical pedagogy
23. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Encoding
Secondary Reinforcer
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Cultural Deficit Theories
24. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Identity
Internal Locus of Control
Validity
Dual Coding Hypothesis
25. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
IDEAL Strategy
External Locus of Control
Transfer of Information
Elaborative Encoding
26. 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
Limited Retardation
Guided Discovery
Personal Fable
27. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Class Inclusion
Public Law 94-142
Heuristics
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
28. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Learning Disabilities
Token Economy
Achievement Motivation
29. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Reciprocal Determinism
Real Self-Efficacy
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
30. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Seriation
Internalization
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Synthetic Intelligence
31. 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
Cultural Differences Theories
Cognitive Objectives
Self-Determination Theory
32. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Guided Discovery
Elaborative Encoding
Two-sigma problem
Proactive Interference
33. 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.
Gender Bias
Educational Psychology
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Token Economy
34. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
General Objectives
Tracking
Echoic Storage Register
35. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Effort
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Cooing
General Exploratory Activities
36. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Hearing Impairment
Human Needs Theory
Encoding
37. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Growth Needs
Elaboration
Identity
Social Cognition
38. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Encoding
General Exploratory Activities
Algorithm
39. 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.
Elaborative Encoding
Encoding
Group Training Experiences
Severe and Profound Retardation
40. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Learned Helplessness
Allocated Time
Centration
Foreclosure
41. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Feedback Loop
Expository Teaching
Performance Grading Scales
Semantic Memory
42. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Language System
Anxiety Disorders
Taxonomy
Instructional Objectives
43. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Practical Intelligence
Comparative Advance Organizers
Social Cognition
Code Emphasis Strategy
44. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Derived Score
Achievement Test Battery
Dyslexia
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
45. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Retrieval
Psychomotor Objectives
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Language System
46. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Comparative Advance Organizers
Cognitive Objectives
Expected Outcomes
47. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Gender Bias
Semantic Memory
Difficulty of the Task
48. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Transformation
Percentile Scores
Phonology
Extrinsic Motivation
49. 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
Reciprocal Determinism
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Triarchic Theory
Seriation
50. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Code Emphasis Strategy
Forgetting
Intrinsic Motivation