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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Hyperactivity
Percentile Scores
Instructional Theory
Questioning Techniques
2. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Acronym
Conventional Morality
Cultural Differences Theories
Subschemata
3. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Schemata
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Operant Behavior
Triarchic Theory
4. 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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5. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Semantic Memory
Psychomotor Objectives
Attribution Theory
6. 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.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Reciprocal Determinism
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Analytical Intelligence
7. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Pedagogy
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Conservation
8. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Postconventional Morality
Reliability
Receptive Language Disorders
Syntax
9. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Retrieval
Response-Cost System
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Syntax
10. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Whole Language Approach
Test Bias
Ability
Accelerated Programs
11. 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
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Comparative Advance Organizers
Reliability
Triarchic Theory
12. The study of the meaning behind words.
Token Economy
Semantics
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
General (or High-Road) Transfer
13. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Attention
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Phonology
Comparative Advance Organizers
14. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Inattention
Problem Solving
Impulsivity
15. 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).
Internalization
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Means-Ends Analysis
Deficiency Needs
16. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Clustering
Law of Effect
Hearing Impairment
Transitivity
17. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Luck
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Procedural Memory
18. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Extrinsic Motivation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Criterion-Related Validity
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
19. 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.
Predictive Validity
Difficulty of the Task
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Development
20. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Standard Error of Estimate
Symbolic Modeling
Expository Teaching
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
21. 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.
Long-Term Memory
General Objectives
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Moratorium
22. 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.
Shaping
Identity Diffusion
Predictive Validity
Socioeconomic Status
23. 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.
Deficiency Needs
Impulsivity
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Shaping
24. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Primary Reinforcer
Procedural Memory
Transitivity
Character Education Programs
25. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Phonology
Analogies
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Mnemonic Devices
26. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Cognitive Objectives
Social Cognition
Law of Effect
Criterion-Referenced Testing
27. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Academic Learning Time
Inattention
Decay
Functional Fixedness
28. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Long-Term Memory
Cooing
Normal Distribution
Identity Diffusion
29. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Holophrastic Speech
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Teaching Efficacy
Normal Distribution
30. The study of how students learn and develop.
Learned Helplessness
Public Law 94-142
Educational Psychology
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
31. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Social Inferences
Character Education Programs
Voice Disorders
Schemata
32. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Holophrastic Speech
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Instructional Theory
Simple Moral Education Programs
33. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Reciprocal Teaching
Gender Role
Descriptive Statistics
Standard Error of Estimate
34. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Jigsaw II
Reading
Percentile Scores
Allocated Time
35. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Deficiency Needs
At-Risk Students
Keyword
Syntax
36. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Class Inclusion
Transfer of Information
Transitivity
Respondent Behavior
37. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Direct Modeling
Active teaching
Confidence Interval
Jigsaw II
38. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Two-Store Model
Mnemonic Devices
Inner Speech
39. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Law of Effect
Norm Group
Practical Intelligence
40. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Retrieval
Test-Retest Reliability
Maturation
Acronym
41. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Affective Objectives
Engaged Time
Decay
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
42. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Z-Scores
Elaboration
43. 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.
Syntax
Aptitude Tests
Static Assessment Approach
Taxonomy
44. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Communication
At-Risk Students
Mental Retardation
Limited Retardation
45. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Internalization
Aptitude Tests
Pedagogy
Working or Short-Term Memory
46. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Moratorium
Planned Ignoring
Communication
Visual Impairment
47. 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.
Conservation
Voice Disorders
Episodic Memory
Type-S Conditioning
48. 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.
Gifted and Talented Children
Object-Relations Theory
Active teaching
Criterion-Referenced Testing
49. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Models (Observational Learning)
Reinforcer
Predictive Validity
Functional Fixedness
50. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Secondary Reinforcer
Synthetic Intelligence
Allocated Time
Group Training Experiences