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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The study of the meaning behind words.
Communication
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Luck
Semantics
2. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Procedural Memory
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Learned Helplessness
Inattention
3. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Social Cognition
Reversibility
Personal Fable
Concurrent Validity
4. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Behavioral Theory
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Automaticity
Conservation
5. The total length of the class.
Self-Regulation
Pedagogy
Intermittent Retardation
Scheduled Time
6. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Inner Speech
Real Self-Efficacy
Preconventional Morality
7. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Demonstrations
Procedural Memory
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
8. 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.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Vicarious Learning
Inattention
Forgetting
9. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Direct Modeling
Achievement Motivation
Human Needs Theory
Means-Ends Analysis
10. 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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11. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Development
Psychometrics
Reading
Behavior Disorders
12. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Expository Advance Organizers
Code Emphasis Strategy
Motivation
13. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Synthesized Modeling
Standard Error of Estimate
Expository Teaching
Analytical Intelligence
14. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Heuristics
Anxiety Disorders
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Specific Learning Outcomes
15. 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.
Task Analysis
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Norm-Referenced Testing
Instructional Objectives
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.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Performance Grading Scales
Taxonomy
Perceived Self-Efficacy
17. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Functional Fixedness
Group Consequences
Direct Modeling
Community-Based Education Programs
18. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Self-Regulation
Predictive Validity
Construct Validity
Metacognition
19. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Intrinsic Motivation
Psychomotor Objectives
T-Scores
20. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Expository Teaching
Z-Scores
21. 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.
Withitness
Law of Effect
Instructional Theory
Pervasive Retardation
22. 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
Reinforcer
Triarchic Theory
Pedagogy
Reciprocal Teaching
23. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Heuristics
Phonology
Code Emphasis Strategy
Impulsivity
24. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Echoic Storage Register
Cognitive Objectives
Descriptive Grading Scales
25. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Observational Learning
Elaboration
Critical pedagogy
Maturation
26. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Task Analysis
Expected Outcomes
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Classification
27. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Mnemonic Devices
Acronym
Constructivism
28. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Withitness
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Achievement Tests
Deficiency Needs
29. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Growth Needs
Internalization
Specific Learning Outcomes
Portfolio
30. Those one observes.
Models (Observational Learning)
Shaping
Personal Fable
Dynamic Assessment Approach
31. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Inattention
At-Risk Students
Preconventional Morality
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
32. How relevant a test is at face value.
At-Risk Students
Face Validity
General Exploratory Activities
Direct instruction
33. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Chunking
Mental Retardation
Elaborative Encoding
34. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Intermittent Retardation
Validity
Standard Error of Estimate
Attention
35. 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).
Growth Needs
Development
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Critical pedagogy
36. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Moderate Retardation
Normal Distribution
Morphemes
Mental Retardation
37. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Character
Stability
Premack Principle
Seriation
38. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Allocated Time
Phonology
Achievement Test Battery
39. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Automaticity
Acronym
Episodic Memory
Echoic Storage Register
40. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Encoding
Phonics Approach
Impulsivity
Personal Fable
41. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Responsibility
Triarchic Theory
Mental Retardation
42. 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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43. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Clustering
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Mastery Grading Scales
Premack Principle
44. 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.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Transitivity
Keyword
Language Experience Strategy
45. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Maturation
Achievement Test Battery
Holophrastic Speech
Concept-Driven Models
46. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Concept-Driven Models
Object-Relations Theory
Semantic Memory
Reading
47. 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.
Reading
Formative Evaluation
Intrinsic Motivation
Planned Ignoring
48. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Generalized Reinforcer
Instructional Theory
Aptitude Tests
Group Training Experiences
49. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
Tracking
Exhibition
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Moratorium
50. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Transitivity
Learning Disabilities
Communication