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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Portfolio
Construct Validity
2. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Inclusion
Mnemonic Devices
Concept-Driven Models
3. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Difficulty of the Task
Schemata
Descriptive Statistics
4. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
At-Risk Students
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Voice Disorders
5. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Encoding
Problem Solving
Decay
Visual Impairment
6. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Expository Advance Organizers
Public Law 94-142
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Test Bias
7. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Conservation
Working-Backward Strategy
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Instructional Objectives
8. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Fluency Disorders
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Socioeconomic Status
Critical pedagogy
9. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Vicarious Learning
Attribution Theory
Postconventional Morality
10. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
External Locus of Control
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Metacognition
11. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Behavioral Theory
Constructivism
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
12. The study of how students learn and develop.
Educational Psychology
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Moderate Retardation
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
13. 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
Pedagogy
Centration
Triarchic Theory
Semantics
14. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Learning Disability
Data-Driven Models
Task Analysis
Method of Loci
15. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Advance Organizer
Dyslexia
Normal Distribution
Language Experience Strategy
16. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Feedback Loop
Internal Locus of Control
Derived Score
Cooperative Learning
17. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Withitness
Pedagogy
Code Emphasis Strategy
Critical pedagogy
18. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Class Inclusion
Portfolio
Working or Short-Term Memory
Automaticity
19. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Time-Out
Subschemata
Achievement Motivation
20. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Acronym
Standard Error of Estimate
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Hyperactivity
21. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Type-R Conditioning
Critical pedagogy
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
22. 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.
Decay
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Moratorium
Expository Teaching
23. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Method of Loci
Foreclosure
Gender Identity
Epilepsy
24. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Automaticity
Phonemes
Fluency Disorders
Expressive Disorders
25. 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.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Achievement Tests
Intrinsic Motivation
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
26. 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.
Taxonomy
Observational Learning
Engaged Time
Secondary Reinforcer
27. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Shaping
Contingency Contracting
Inner Speech
Method of Loci
28. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Echoic Storage Register
Synthesized Modeling
Centration
29. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Primary Reinforcer
Engaged Time
Expected Outcomes
Community-Based Education Programs
30. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Conservation
Expressive Disorders
Mastery Learning
31. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Responsibility
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Questioning Techniques
Law of Effect
32. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Community-Based Education Programs
Stability
Schemata
33. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Communication
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Gender Identity
Class Inclusion
34. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Mastery Learning
Expected Outcomes
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
35. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Identity Achievement
Acronym
Motivation
Test Bias
36. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Exceptional Learners
Academic Learning Time
Synthesized Modeling
37. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Metacognition
Cognitive Objectives
Type-S Conditioning
38. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Concept-Driven Models
Cultural Deficit Theories
Internalization
39. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Human Needs Theory
Response-Cost System
Centration
Social Cognition
40. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Organization
Pragmatics
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
41. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Criterion-Related Validity
Identity Diffusion
Retrieval
Development
42. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
T-Scores
Elaboration
Type-R Conditioning
Character
43. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Morphemes
Articulation Difficulties
Brainstorming
Response-Cost System
44. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Direct Modeling
Procedural Memory
Criterion-Referenced Testing
45. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Receptive Language Disorders
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Identity
Token Economy
46. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Models (Observational Learning)
Retroactive Interference
Real Self-Efficacy
Questioning Techniques
47. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Self-Efficacy
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Social Cognition
Postconventional Morality
48. The total length of the class.
Learning Disabilities
Internal Locus of Control
Scheduled Time
Expository Teaching
49. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Mnemonic Devices
Expository Teaching
Method of Loci
50. 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.
Phonics Approach
Guided Discovery
Algorithm
Meaning Emphasis Strategy