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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
General Objectives
Behavior Disorders
Premack Principle
Motivation
2. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Response-Cost System
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Static Assessment Approach
Seriation
3. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Class Inclusion
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
4. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Learned Helplessness
Cooing
Conventional Morality
5. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Schemata
Analogies
Visual Impairment
6. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Constructivism
Observational Learning
Seriation
7. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Seriation
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Morphemes
Dyslexia
8. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Internalization
Summative Evaluation
Reciprocal Determinism
9. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Moderate Retardation
Affective Objectives
10. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Clustering
Criterion-Related Validity
Synthesized Modeling
IDEAL Strategy
11. 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
Group Consequences
Pivotal Response Therapy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Models (Observational Learning)
12. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Clustering
Derived Score
Analogies
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
13. 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 -
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Performance Grading Scales
Models (Instruction)
14. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Predictive Validity
Transformation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
15. 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.
Gender Identity
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Premack Principle
Student Team Achievement Decisions
16. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Operant Behavior
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Z-Scores
Achievement Tests
17. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Clustering
Comparative Advance Organizers
Working-Backward Strategy
Rehearsal
18. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Social Inferences
Transitivity
Generalized Reinforcer
Performance-Based Test Strategies
19. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Attribution Theory
Social Cognition
Data-Driven Models
Babbling
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. 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
Semantics
Psychometrics
Difficulty of the Task
22. 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).
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
External Locus of Control
Deficiency Needs
Ability
23. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Dyslexia
Identity Diffusion
Two-sigma problem
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
24. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Attention
Generative learning
Elaboration
Perceived Self-Efficacy
25. How relevant a test is at face value.
Cooing
Descriptive Statistics
Face Validity
Planned Ignoring
26. The total length of the class.
Whole Language Approach
Scheduled Time
Practical Intelligence
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
27. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Educational Goals
Transitivity
Personal Fable
Phonology
28. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Social Learning and Expectancy
Primary Reinforcer
Descriptive Grading Scales
29. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Practical Intelligence
Elaborative Encoding
Extensive Retardation
Hearing Impairment
30. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Gender Identity
Task Analysis
Synthesized Modeling
Phonemes
31. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Concurrent Validity
Semantic Memory
Language Experience Strategy
Exceptional Learners
32. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Constructivism
Development
Learning Disabilities
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
33. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Portfolio
Response-Cost System
Educational Goals
34. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Exceptional Learners
Direct Modeling
Social Cognition
Self-Regulation
35. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Perception
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Accelerated Programs
Cultural Deficit Theories
36. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Difficulty of the Task
Receptive Language Disorders
Group Consequences
Affective Objectives
37. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Concept-Driven Models
Working-Backward Strategy
Keyword
Learning Disability
38. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Chunking
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Norm-Referenced Testing
39. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Generalized Reinforcer
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Normal Distribution
Law of Effect
40. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Enrichment Programs
Critical pedagogy
Learning Disabilities
Generalized Reinforcer
41. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Human Needs Theory
T-Scores
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Active teaching
42. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Derived Score
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Group Training Experiences
Retroactive Interference
43. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Mastery Learning
Problem Solving
Psychometrics
Instruction
44. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Fluency Disorders
Language System
Intrinsic Motivation
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
45. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Whole Language Approach
Mental Retardation
attrition
Communication
46. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Static Assessment Approach
Retroactive Interference
Pedagogy
Communication
47. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Character Education Programs
Self-Regulation
Standard Error of Estimate
External Locus of Control
48. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Growth Needs
Response Set
Gifted and Talented Children
Centration
49. 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
Mental Retardation
Responsibility
Perceived Self-Efficacy
50. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Construct Validity
Group Consequences
Mental Retardation
Static Assessment Approach