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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Impulsivity
Generative learning
Heuristics
Aptitude Tests
2. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Attribution Theory
Educational Goals
Symbolic Modeling
Voice Disorders
3. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Direct Modeling
Advance Organizer
Task Analysis
Algorithm
4. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Percentile Scores
Guided Discovery
Scheduled Time
5. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Derived Score
Human Needs Theory
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
6. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Responsibility
Inclusion
Iconic Storage Register
Confidence Interval
7. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Group Consequences
Dyslexia
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Transformation
8. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Summative Evaluation
Public Law 94-142
Automaticity
Two-Store Model
9. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Conservation
Time-Out
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Two-Store Model
10. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Gifted and Talented Children
Ability
Direct instruction
11. 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.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Corporal Punishment
Law of Effect
Performance Grading Scales
12. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Attention
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Predictive Validity
13. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Chunking
Validity
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Learning Disability
14. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Respondent Behavior
Standard Error of Estimate
attrition
Limited Retardation
15. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Accelerated Programs
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Mastery Learning
16. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Voice Disorders
Educational Psychology
Syntax
Affective Objectives
17. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Direct Modeling
Real Self-Efficacy
Analytical Intelligence
18. 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.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Vicarious Learning
Allocated Time
Gifted and Talented Children
19. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Development
Mental Retardation
Direct Modeling
Transitional Bilingual Programs
20. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Difficulty of the Task
Transitivity
Fluency Disorders
Expository Advance Organizers
21. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Inattention
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Exhibition
Transitivity
22. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Metacognition
Jigsaw II
Procedural Memory
23. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Generalized Reinforcer
Organization
External Locus of Control
Receptive Language Disorders
24. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Conservation
Concurrent Validity
Psychomotor Objectives
Fluency Disorders
25. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Two-Store Model
Identity
Retrieval
26. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Internal Locus of Control
Psychometrics
Exceptional Learners
Advance Organizer
27. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Rehearsal
Automaticity
Direct Modeling
Task Analysis
28. The total length of the class.
Aptitude Tests
Two-Store Model
Pervasive Retardation
Scheduled Time
29. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Responsibility
Syntax
Gender Identity
Conditioning
30. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Derived Score
Specific Learning Outcomes
Pervasive Retardation
31. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Expository Advance Organizers
Identity Diffusion
Z-Scores
Mastery Grading Scales
32. 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)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Engaged Time
Severe and Profound Retardation
33. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Advance Organizer
Luck
Effort
Time-Out
34. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Deficiency Needs
Response-Cost System
Formative Evaluation
35. 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
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Working or Short-Term Memory
Code Emphasis Strategy
Expository Advance Organizers
36. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Confidence Interval
Centration
Synthetic Intelligence
37. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Demonstrations
Moderate Retardation
Triarchic Theory
38. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Criterion-Related Validity
Elaboration
Learned Helplessness
Taxonomy
39. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Chunking
Secondary Reinforcer
Learning Disabilities
Instruction
40. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Face Validity
Analogies
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Portfolio
41. 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.
Two-Store Model
Postconventional Morality
Instructional Theory
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
42. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Taxonomy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
External Locus of Control
Extrinsic Motivation
43. The study of the social aspects of language use.
General Objectives
Pragmatics
Respondent Behavior
Operant Behavior
44. How relevant a test is at face value.
Proactive Interference
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Face Validity
45. 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.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Group Consequences
Critical pedagogy
Normal Distribution
46. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Token Economy
Motivation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
47. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Comparative Advance Organizers
Contingency Contracting
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
48. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Self-Efficacy
Working-Backward Strategy
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Mnemonic Devices
49. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Fluency Disorders
Proactive Interference
Academic Learning Time
Social Inferences
50. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Inclusion
At-Risk Students
Norm-Referenced Testing
T-Scores
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