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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Teaching Efficacy
Simple Moral Education Programs
Cultural Differences Theories
2. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Reversibility
Extensive Retardation
Automaticity
Episodic Memory
3. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Planned Ignoring
Social Cognition
Educational Psychology
Brainstorming
4. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Synthetic Intelligence
Tracking
Pedagogy
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
5. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Validity
Pragmatics
Educational Goals
6. 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
Behavioral Theory
Hearing Impairment
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Generative learning
7. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Reversibility
Intermittent Retardation
Morphemes
Educational Psychology
8. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
Transitivity
Working-Backward Strategy
General Objectives
Real Self-Efficacy
9. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Educational Psychology
Brainstorming
Task Analysis
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
10. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Expository Advance Organizers
Simple Moral Education Programs
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Type-R Conditioning
11. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Concept-Driven Models
Learned Helplessness
Inclusion
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
12. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Maturation
Behavioral Theory
Respondent Behavior
Expository Teaching
13. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Mild Retardation
Percentile Scores
Achievement Tests
14. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Gender Role
Norm-Referenced Testing
Limited Retardation
15. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Invincibility Fallacy
Cognitive Objectives
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Norm-Referenced Testing
16. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Attribution Theory
Extensive Retardation
Code Emphasis Strategy
Expository Teaching
17. The sensory register for auditory information.
Direct Modeling
Mnemonic Devices
Reciprocal Determinism
Echoic Storage Register
18. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Concurrent Validity
Questioning Techniques
Anxiety Disorders
Visual Impairment
19. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Communication
Social Cognition
Mental Retardation
Achievement Motivation
20. 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.
Direct instruction
Constructivism
Expected Outcomes
Semantics
21. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Seriation
General Exploratory Activities
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Advance Organizer
22. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Group Training Experiences
Practical Intelligence
Assertive Discipline
attrition
23. 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
Whole Language Approach
Descriptive Grading Scales
Learning Disability
24. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Models (Instruction)
Practical Intelligence
25. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Syntax
Severe and Profound Retardation
Identity
Percentile Scores
26. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Internal Locus of Control
Forgetting
Social Learning and Expectancy
Growth Needs
27. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Achievement Test Battery
Extensive Retardation
Gender Identity
Contingency Contracting
28. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Growth Needs
Socioeconomic Status
Real Self-Efficacy
29. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Test-Retest Reliability
Echoic Storage Register
Real Self-Efficacy
Instructional Objectives
30. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Social Learning and Expectancy
General Exploratory Activities
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Test Bias
31. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Mental Retardation
Cooperative Learning
Language Experience Strategy
Epilepsy
32. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Babbling
Public Law 94-142
Pedagogy
At-Risk Students
33. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Inner Speech
Functional Fixedness
Direct instruction
Reversibility
34. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Analytical Intelligence
Mental Retardation
Synthetic Intelligence
Extrinsic Motivation
35. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Behavior Disorders
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Validity
Gender Role
36. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Validity
Decay
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
37. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Attribution Theory
Dynamic Assessment Approach
38. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Problem Solving
Conservation
Vicarious Learning
Group Training Experiences
39. 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.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Extrinsic Motivation
Respondent Behavior
Token Economy
40. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Models (Instruction)
Voice Disorders
Code Emphasis Strategy
General Exploratory Activities
41. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Operant Behavior
Automaticity
Centration
Self-Determination Theory
42. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Learning Disability
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
43. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
Enrichment Programs
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Type-S Conditioning
44. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Clustering
Transitivity
Phonology
Language System
45. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Analytical Intelligence
Perception
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Mental Retardation
46. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Morphemes
Hyperactivity
Standard Error of Estimate
Inner Speech
47. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Cultural Differences Theories
Gifted and Talented Children
Mental Retardation
Foreclosure
48. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Behavioral Theory
Generalized Reinforcer
Exhibition
Comparative Advance Organizers
49. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Instructional Theory
Organization
Social Learning and Expectancy
50. 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.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Guided Discovery
Impulsivity
Moratorium