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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Elaboration
Direct instruction
Keyword
Gifted and Talented Children
2. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Generalized Reinforcer
Student Team Achievement Decisions
At-Risk Students
Face Validity
3. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Formative Evaluation
Feedback Loop
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Validity
4. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Instructional Theory
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Holophrastic Speech
Foreclosure
5. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Clustering
Expository Teaching
6. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Proactive Interference
Extrinsic Motivation
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Enrichment Programs
7. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Visual Impairment
Mild Retardation
Impulsivity
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
8. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Educational Goals
Learned Helplessness
Exhibition
IDEAL Strategy
9. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Confidence Interval
T-Scores
Real Self-Efficacy
Mastery Grading Scales
10. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Extrinsic Motivation
Symbolic Modeling
Responsibility
Code Emphasis Strategy
11. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Teaching Efficacy
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Observational Learning
12. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Rehearsal
Postconventional Morality
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Mental Retardation
13. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Models (Observational Learning)
Self-Efficacy
Identity Achievement
Psychomotor Objectives
14. The study of how students learn and develop.
Encoding
Educational Psychology
Social Inferences
Luck
15. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Standard Error of Estimate
Direct instruction
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Z-Scores
16. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Task Analysis
Holophrastic Speech
Reversibility
Advance Organizer
17. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Automaticity
Echoic Storage Register
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Law of Effect
18. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Character
Class Inclusion
General Exploratory Activities
19. 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.
Construct Validity
Instructional Theory
Internalization
T-Scores
20. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Reinforcer
Personal Fable
Class Inclusion
Assertive Discipline
21. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Academic Learning Time
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Working-Backward Strategy
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
22. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
General Objectives
Pedagogy
Elaborative Encoding
Limited Retardation
23. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Psychometrics
Critical pedagogy
Code Emphasis Strategy
Tracking
24. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Behavior Disorders
Social Inferences
Development
Scheduled Time
25. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Corporal Punishment
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Achievement Motivation
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
26. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Practical Intelligence
Limited Retardation
Primary Reinforcer
27. 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.
Cooing
Attribution Theory
Practical Intelligence
Analytical Intelligence
28. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Two-Store Model
Cognitive Objectives
Analogies
Functional Fixedness
29. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Affective Objectives
Secondary Reinforcer
Guided Discovery
Models (Instruction)
30. 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.
Constructivism
Impulsivity
Maturation
Acronym
31. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Standard Error of Estimate
Growth Needs
Cultural Differences Theories
Content Validity
32. The study of the meaning behind words.
Time-Out
Demonstrations
Semantics
Communication
33. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Identity
Type-R Conditioning
Functional Fixedness
Phonemes
34. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Babbling
Epilepsy
Pedagogy
Type-S Conditioning
35. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Luck
Psychomotor Objectives
Morphemes
Predictive Validity
36. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Normal Distribution
Synthetic Intelligence
Response-Cost System
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
37. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Response Set
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Character Education Programs
Mild Retardation
38. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Community-Based Education Programs
Gender Bias
Scheduled Time
39. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Clustering
Retroactive Interference
Visual Impairment
Data-Driven Models
40. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Code Emphasis Strategy
Type-S Conditioning
Corporal Punishment
41. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Mastery Grading Scales
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Normal Distribution
Law of Effect
42. 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
Expected Outcomes
Confidence Interval
Expository Teaching
43. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Procedural Memory
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Cooperative Learning
Transitional Bilingual Programs
44. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Pragmatics
Accelerated Programs
Conditioning
Fluency Disorders
45. 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 external to the student.
Character Education Programs
Validity
Construct Validity
Luck
46. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Secondary Reinforcer
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Feedback Loop
47. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Conventional Morality
Internalization
Confidence Interval
48. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Babbling
Clustering
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Ability
49. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Self-Efficacy
Two-sigma problem
Communication
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
50. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Portfolio
Social Learning and Expectancy
Postconventional Morality
Specific Learning Outcomes
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