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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Direct Modeling
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Norm Group
Proactive Interference
2. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Reciprocal Teaching
Predictive Validity
Receptive Language Disorders
Response-Cost System
3. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int
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4. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Z-Scores
Means-Ends Analysis
Task Analysis
Elaboration
5. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Phonemes
Mental Retardation
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
6. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Human Needs Theory
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Babbling
Severe and Profound Retardation
7. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Criterion-Related Validity
Automaticity
Responsibility
Reciprocal Teaching
8. 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.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Severe and Profound Retardation
Long-Term Memory
Psychometrics
9. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Practical Intelligence
Summative Evaluation
Time-Out
Conventional Morality
10. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Reading
Practical Intelligence
Confidence Interval
Concept-Driven Models
11. 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.
Mental Retardation
Socioeconomic Status
Subschemata
Response-Cost System
12. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
General Exploratory Activities
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Questioning Techniques
Descriptive Statistics
13. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Transitivity
Direct instruction
Hyperactivity
Retroactive Interference
14. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Method of Loci
Schemata
Direct instruction
Respondent Behavior
15. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Pervasive Retardation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
16. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Standard Error of Estimate
Task Analysis
Instructional Objectives
Pragmatics
17. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Expository Advance Organizers
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Learned Helplessness
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
18. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Gender Role
Demonstrations
Taxonomy
Code Emphasis Strategy
19. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Exhibition
Effort
Cultural Deficit Theories
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
20. 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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21. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Norm Group
Real Self-Efficacy
Synthesized Modeling
Dynamic Assessment Approach
22. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Forgetting
Growth Needs
Self-Determination Theory
23. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Concurrent Validity
Perception
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Conventional Morality
24. 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).
Two-Store Model
At-Risk Students
Growth Needs
Accelerated Programs
25. 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.
Expressive Disorders
Means-Ends Analysis
Analytical Intelligence
Active teaching
26. 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.
Moratorium
Encoding
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Concept-Driven Models
27. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Aptitude Tests
Group Consequences
Instructional Theory
28. 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.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Voice Disorders
Algorithm
Difficulty of the Task
29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Means-Ends Analysis
Synthesized Modeling
Token Economy
Limited Retardation
30. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Reversibility
Cultural Differences Theories
Allocated Time
Normal Distribution
31. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Syntax
Phonemes
Construct Validity
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
32. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Elaboration
Phonemes
Intrinsic Motivation
Gifted and Talented Children
33. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Secondary Reinforcer
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Subschemata
34. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Planned Ignoring
Holophrastic Speech
Learning Disability
Direct instruction
35. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Effort
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Extrinsic Motivation
attrition
36. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Secondary Reinforcer
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Visual Impairment
Static Assessment Approach
37. 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.
Generative learning
Absolute Grading Standards
Phonics Approach
Scheduled Time
38. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Development
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Tracking
Clustering
39. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Performance Grading Scales
Derived Score
Decay
Metacognition
40. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Semantic Memory
Teaching Efficacy
Primary Reinforcer
Perception
41. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Language Experience Strategy
Character
Allocated Time
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
42. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Absolute Grading Standards
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Advance Organizer
Functional Fixedness
43. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hearing Impairment
Triarchic Theory
Absolute Grading Standards
Impulsivity
44. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Time-Out
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Cognitive Objectives
45. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Operant Behavior
Stability
Transfer of Information
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
46. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Reinforcer
Maturation
Forgetting
Dyslexia
47. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Respondent Behavior
Learning Disabilities
Code Emphasis Strategy
Portfolio
48. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Limited Retardation
Derived Score
Self-Regulation
Reciprocal Determinism
49. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Expository Teaching
Instructional Objectives
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Impulsivity
50. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Absolute Grading Standards
Growth Needs
Moderate Retardation
At-Risk Students