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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Holophrastic Speech
Absolute Grading Standards
Pragmatics
Questioning Techniques
2. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Internal Locus of Control
Teaching Efficacy
Synthesized Modeling
Contingency Contracting
3. 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.
Test Bias
Receptive Language Disorders
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Summative Evaluation
4. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Instruction
At-Risk Students
Carroll's Model of School Learning
5. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Development
Language System
Decay
Classification
6. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Normal Distribution
Z-Scores
Personal Fable
7. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Moratorium
Achievement Test Battery
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Limited Retardation
8. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Learned Helplessness
Reversibility
Scheduled Time
Synthetic Intelligence
9. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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10. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Procedural Memory
At-Risk Students
Self-Regulation
Keyword
11. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Data-Driven Models
Descriptive Grading Scales
Generative learning
Feedback Loop
12. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Guided Discovery
Identity Achievement
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
13. 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
Learning Disabilities
Self-Efficacy
Gender Role
Conservation
14. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
At-Risk Students
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Dual Coding Hypothesis
15. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Automaticity
Guided Discovery
Centration
Reinforcer
16. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Inner Speech
Learning Disability
attrition
Percentile Scores
17. The sensory register for auditory information.
Communication
Receptive Language Disorders
Echoic Storage Register
T-Scores
18. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Internal Locus of Control
Behavioral Theory
At-Risk Students
19. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Internal Locus of Control
Working or Short-Term Memory
Character Education Programs
20. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Public Law 94-142
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Mental Retardation
Generalized Reinforcer
21. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Human Needs Theory
Learned Helplessness
22. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Extensive Retardation
Impulsivity
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
23. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Active teaching
Secondary Reinforcer
Practical Intelligence
24. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Vicarious Learning
Decay
Respondent Behavior
Babbling
25. 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.
Phonemes
Time-Out
Exhibition
Class Inclusion
26. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Norm Group
Academic Learning Time
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Fluency Disorders
27. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Percentile Scores
Anxiety Disorders
Identity Diffusion
28. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Validity
Working-Backward Strategy
Automaticity
29. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Personal Fable
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Means-Ends Analysis
30. 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.
Fluency Disorders
Formative Evaluation
Time-Out
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
31. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Synthetic Intelligence
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Psychomotor Objectives
Formative Evaluation
32. 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 external to the student.
Difficulty of the Task
Models (Instruction)
Holophrastic Speech
Psychometrics
33. 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.
Effort
Postconventional Morality
Social Cognition
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
34. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Derived Score
Invincibility Fallacy
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Transfer of Information
35. 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.
Retrieval
Ability
Inclusion
Social Cognition
36. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Corporal Punishment
Guided Discovery
Cultural Differences Theories
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
37. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Portfolio
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Cooing
38. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Phonics Approach
Group Training Experiences
Algorithm
Engaged Time
39. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Classification
Gender Identity
Limited Retardation
Morphemes
40. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Centration
Working-Backward Strategy
Type-S Conditioning
Mild Retardation
41. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Extrinsic Motivation
Identity
42. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Task Analysis
Reversibility
Mild Retardation
Vicarious Learning
43. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Data-Driven Models
Models (Observational Learning)
Analytical Intelligence
Steiner-Waldorf Education
44. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Law of Effect
Luck
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
45. 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.
Morphemes
Seriation
Percentile Scores
Self-Regulation
46. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Centration
Algorithm
Enrichment Programs
Synthesized Modeling
47. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Symbolic Modeling
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Echoic Storage Register
Cooing
48. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Semantic Memory
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Accelerated Programs
Decay
49. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Invincibility Fallacy
Attribution Theory
Conventional Morality
Predictive Validity
50. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Planned Ignoring
Heuristics
Academic Learning Time
Human Needs Theory