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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Pervasive Retardation
Aptitude Tests
Scheduled Time
Concurrent Validity
2. 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.
Growth Needs
Contingency Contracting
Babbling
Language Experience Strategy
3. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Triarchic Theory
Organization
Affective Objectives
Stability
4. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Real Self-Efficacy
Absolute Grading Standards
Reinforcer
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
5. 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.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Pedagogy
Analytical Intelligence
Psychomotor Objectives
6. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Symbolic Modeling
Proactive Interference
Ability
Invincibility Fallacy
7. 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.
Public Law 94-142
Inattention
Pivotal Response Therapy
Long-Term Memory
8. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Moderate Retardation
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Procedural Memory
9. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Reciprocal Determinism
Reversibility
Generalized Reinforcer
Internalization
10. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Problem Solving
Moderate Retardation
Language Experience Strategy
Tracking
11. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Mild Retardation
Syntax
Demonstrations
Conventional Morality
12. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Retroactive Interference
Whole Language Approach
Models (Instruction)
Responsibility
13. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Synthesized Modeling
Descriptive Grading Scales
Allocated Time
14. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Heuristics
Standard Error of Estimate
Descriptive Grading Scales
15. 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.
Inattention
Normal Distribution
Content Validity
Intrinsic Motivation
16. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Law of Effect
Articulation Difficulties
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Type-S Conditioning
17. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Z-Scores
Withitness
Two-Store Model
Postconventional Morality
18. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Respondent Behavior
General Exploratory Activities
Clustering
Subschemata
19. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Learning Disabilities
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Group Consequences
20. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Planned Ignoring
Clustering
Test-Retest Reliability
21. 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.
Construct Validity
General Objectives
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Babbling
22. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Group Consequences
Babbling
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
23. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Decay
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Subschemata
24. 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.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Gifted and Talented Children
Inattention
Absolute Grading Standards
25. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Steiner-Waldorf Education
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Retroactive Interference
26. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Norm Group
Vicarious Learning
Maturation
Perception
27. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Articulation Difficulties
Norm Group
Descriptive Grading Scales
Classification
28. 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.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Identity
Intrinsic Motivation
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
29. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Analogies
Models (Observational Learning)
Expository Teaching
Invincibility Fallacy
30. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Character
Law of Effect
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Transformation
31. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Phonology
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Intrinsic Motivation
32. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Primary Reinforcer
Norm Group
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Decay
33. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Gender Bias
Secondary Reinforcer
Expected Outcomes
34. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Epilepsy
Concurrent Validity
Keyword
Mastery Grading Scales
35. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Learning Disabilities
Response Set
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Episodic Memory
36. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Episodic Memory
Reading
Reliability
37. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is stable and external to the student.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Practical Intelligence
Difficulty of the Task
Anxiety Disorders
38. 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.
General Objectives
Moratorium
Mental Retardation
Individual and Small-Group Activities
39. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Active teaching
Respondent Behavior
Allocated Time
Behavior Disorders
40. One of the characteristics in Attribution Theory a student will use to figure out why his or her actions had the outcome they did. This characteristic is unstable and intrinsic to the student.
Effort
Two-sigma problem
Problem Solving
Constructivism
41. 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
Maturation
Semantics
Responsibility
Reciprocal Teaching
42. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Psychometrics
Questioning Techniques
Pivotal Response Therapy
43. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Attribution Theory
Simple Moral Education Programs
Automaticity
Cooperative Learning
44. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Analytical Intelligence
Inclusion
Proactive Interference
45. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Pivotal Response Therapy
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Extensive Retardation
Method of Loci
46. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Gender Role
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Law of Effect
47. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Inclusion
Standard Error of Estimate
Guided Discovery
48. 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.
Growth Needs
Encoding
Learning Disability
Self-Determination Theory
49. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Norm Group
Type-S Conditioning
Pervasive Retardation
Criterion-Related Validity
50. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Conditioning
Educational Goals
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Transitivity