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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Instructional Objectives
Direct instruction
Epilepsy
Maturation
2. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Decay
Time-Out
Conventional Morality
Method of Loci
3. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Jigsaw II
Test Bias
Social Inferences
Fluency Disorders
4. Relating current information with previous learning.
Analogies
Echoic Storage Register
Percentile Scores
Exhibition
5. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Constructivism
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
6. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Response-Cost System
Personal Fable
Formative Evaluation
Engaged Time
7. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Jigsaw II
Two-sigma problem
Instructional Objectives
Reciprocal Teaching
8. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Self-Efficacy
Normal Distribution
Schemata
Ability
9. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Respondent Behavior
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Time-Out
10. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Synthetic Intelligence
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Expository Advance Organizers
Predictive Validity
11. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Cooing
Pervasive Retardation
Achievement Tests
Visual Impairment
12. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Cognitive Objectives
Self-Regulation
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Derived Score
13. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Moderate Retardation
Foreclosure
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
14. 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.
General Objectives
Expository Advance Organizers
Phonics Approach
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
15. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Inclusion
Aptitude Tests
Allocated Time
Simple Moral Education Programs
16. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Phonemes
Social Cognition
Invincibility Fallacy
Transitional Bilingual Programs
17. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Ability
Group Consequences
At-Risk Students
Mild Retardation
18. 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.
Test-Retest Reliability
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Voice Disorders
Time-Out
19. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Socioeconomic Status
Gender Identity
Content Validity
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
20. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Construct Validity
Epilepsy
Algorithm
At-Risk Students
21. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Criterion-Related Validity
Self-Efficacy
Content Validity
22. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expository Advance Organizers
Cultural Deficit Theories
Z-Scores
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
23. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Normal Distribution
Validity
Morphemes
24. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Acronym
Jigsaw II
Type-R Conditioning
Mastery Learning
25. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Mental Retardation
Cognitive Objectives
Automaticity
Scheduled Time
26. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Postconventional Morality
Contingency Contracting
Personal Fable
Sensory Register
27. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Direct Modeling
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Behavior Disorders
Questioning Techniques
28. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Achievement Test Battery
Exhibition
Foreclosure
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
29. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Growth Needs
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Severe and Profound Retardation
Voice Disorders
30. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Predictive Validity
Engaged Time
Generalized Reinforcer
Allocated Time
31. 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 (
attrition
Models (Observational Learning)
Foreclosure
Postconventional Morality
32. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Centration
Cooing
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Z-Scores
33. 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
Synthesized Modeling
Cognitive Objectives
Reversibility
34. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Direct instruction
Performance Grading Scales
Task Analysis
Morphemes
35. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Reliability
Internalization
Response Set
Communication
36. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Gender Bias
Descriptive Statistics
Problem Solving
37. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Vicarious Learning
Communication
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Heuristics
38. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Ability
Dyslexia
Psychomotor Objectives
39. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
attrition
Normal Distribution
Withitness
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
40. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Gender Role
Character
Simple Moral Education Programs
Summative Evaluation
41. 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.
Demonstrations
Shaping
Percentile Scores
Content Validity
42. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Concept-Driven Models
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Behavior Disorders
43. 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.
Models (Observational Learning)
Taxonomy
Derived Score
Generalized Reinforcer
44. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Respondent Behavior
Corporal Punishment
Absolute Grading Standards
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
45. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Expository Teaching
Code Emphasis Strategy
Teaching Efficacy
Feedback Loop
46. The total length of the class.
Retrieval
Character
Problem Solving
Scheduled Time
47. The sensory register for visual information.
Invincibility Fallacy
Self-Determination Theory
Iconic Storage Register
Heuristics
48. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Fluency Disorders
Brainstorming
Phonemes
Student Team Achievement Decisions
49. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Exhibition
Dyslexia
Absolute Grading Standards
Behavioral Theory
50. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Normal Distribution
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Respondent Behavior
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