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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Tracking
Type-R Conditioning
Concurrent Validity
Gifted and Talented Children
2. 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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3. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Two-Store Model
Personal Fable
Object-Relations Theory
Direct Modeling
4. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Keyword
Algorithm
Descriptive Grading Scales
5. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Teaching Efficacy
Internal Locus of Control
Long-Term Memory
Means-Ends Analysis
6. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Rehearsal
Absolute Grading Standards
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Confidence Interval
7. 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
Phonics Approach
Communication
Language System
Character
8. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Analogies
Exhibition
Withitness
Motivation
9. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Achievement Motivation
Moderate Retardation
Pedagogy
Expository Teaching
10. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Formative Evaluation
Transformation
Retroactive Interference
Test-Retest Reliability
11. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Attribution Theory
Group Training Experiences
Semantic Memory
12. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Organization
Instructional Theory
Problem Solving
Primary Reinforcer
13. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Real Self-Efficacy
Cultural Differences Theories
Fluency Disorders
Transformation
14. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Behavioral Theory
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Group Training Experiences
Method of Loci
15. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Ability
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Means-Ends Analysis
16. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Dyslexia
Descriptive Grading Scales
17. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Instruction
Retroactive Interference
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
18. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Maturation
Cultural Differences Theories
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
19. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Identity
Reliability
Response Set
20. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Standard Error of Estimate
Mastery Grading Scales
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Postconventional Morality
21. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Forgetting
External Locus of Control
Means-Ends Analysis
Social Cognition
22. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Group Consequences
Identity Achievement
General (or High-Road) Transfer
23. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Epilepsy
Encoding
Behavioral Theory
Severe and Profound Retardation
24. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Conservation
Chunking
Engaged Time
Social Learning and Expectancy
25. 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.
Jigsaw II
Synthetic Intelligence
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
26. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Deficiency Needs
Mnemonic Devices
Community-Based Education Programs
Organization
27. 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)
Construct Validity
Proactive Interference
Invincibility Fallacy
28. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Retrieval
Development
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Pivotal Response Therapy
29. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Z-Scores
Moratorium
Descriptive Grading Scales
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
30. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Achievement Motivation
Type-R Conditioning
Human Needs Theory
Learning Disability
31. 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
Affective Objectives
Working or Short-Term Memory
Educational Psychology
Instruction
32. 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.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Specific Learning Outcomes
Instructional Theory
Elaborative Encoding
33. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Motivation
Pedagogy
Moderate Retardation
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
34. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Elaboration
Predictive Validity
Withitness
35. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Psychometrics
Comparative Advance Organizers
Babbling
Social Cognition
36. The inability to retrieve learned information.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Forgetting
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
37. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Language Experience Strategy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Educational Psychology
Static Assessment Approach
38. 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.
Echoic Storage Register
Absolute Grading Standards
Type-S Conditioning
Construct Validity
39. 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
Reversibility
Norm Group
Two-Store Model
Language Experience Strategy
40. 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.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Percentile Scores
41. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Confidence Interval
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Code Emphasis Strategy
Moderate Retardation
42. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Academic Learning Time
Normal Distribution
Construct Validity
43. 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.
Cultural Differences Theories
Algorithm
Phonics Approach
Clustering
44. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Syntax
Morphemes
Language Experience Strategy
Confidence Interval
45. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Mild Retardation
Chunking
Brainstorming
Hearing Impairment
46. The total length of the class.
Algorithm
Symbolic Modeling
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Scheduled Time
47. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Character
Social Learning and Expectancy
Token Economy
Foreclosure
48. 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.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Mental Retardation
Affective Objectives
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
49. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Face Validity
Two-Store Model
50. Relating current information with previous learning.
Guided Discovery
Analogies
Critical pedagogy
Object-Relations Theory