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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Classification
Transformation
Phonology
Self-Determination Theory
2. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Tracking
Descriptive Statistics
Stability
Means-Ends Analysis
3. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Gifted and Talented Children
Test-Retest Reliability
Language System
Maturation
4. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Mnemonic Devices
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Token Economy
Comparative Advance Organizers
5. 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
Public Law 94-142
Primary Reinforcer
Responsibility
Language System
6. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Educational Psychology
Transfer of Information
Primary Reinforcer
Moderate Retardation
7. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Voice Disorders
Percentile Scores
Social Inferences
Static Assessment Approach
8. The sensory register for auditory information.
Echoic Storage Register
Analytical Intelligence
General Exploratory Activities
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
9. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Whole Language Approach
Deficiency Needs
Human Needs Theory
Taxonomy
10. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Transformation
Group Training Experiences
Premack Principle
Severe and Profound Retardation
11. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Extrinsic Motivation
Expressive Disorders
Forgetting
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
12. 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
Exceptional Learners
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Cooing
13. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Anxiety Disorders
Hyperactivity
Iconic Storage Register
Expressive Disorders
14. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Concurrent Validity
Descriptive Statistics
Instructional Objectives
Clustering
15. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Self-Regulation
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Individual and Small-Group Activities
16. 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).
Epilepsy
Public Law 94-142
Active teaching
Data-Driven Models
17. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Constructivism
Working-Backward Strategy
18. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Mental Retardation
Simple Moral Education Programs
Phonology
Normal Distribution
19. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Descriptive Statistics
Psychomotor Objectives
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Achievement Test Battery
20. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Whole Language Approach
Internal Locus of Control
Severe and Profound Retardation
Enrichment Programs
21. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Cognitive Objectives
Working or Short-Term Memory
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Intrinsic Motivation
22. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Reciprocal Determinism
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Ability
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
23. 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.
Stability
Code Emphasis Strategy
Feedback Loop
Difficulty of the Task
24. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Receptive Language Disorders
Mastery Learning
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Conservation
25. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Chunking
Classification
Receptive Language Disorders
Moratorium
26. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Academic Learning Time
Human Needs Theory
Conditioning
Transformation
27. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Retrieval
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Mnemonic Devices
28. 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.
Type-R Conditioning
Decay
Means-Ends Analysis
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
29. 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.
Identity
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Instructional Theory
30. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Social Inferences
Iconic Storage Register
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
31. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Schemata
Elaboration
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
32. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Active teaching
Identity
Brainstorming
Instruction
33. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Validity
Voice Disorders
Growth Needs
Z-Scores
34. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Community-Based Education Programs
Extrinsic Motivation
Generalized Reinforcer
Pragmatics
35. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Hearing Impairment
Expected Outcomes
Derived Score
36. 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.
Development
Self-Regulation
Group Consequences
Achievement Test Battery
37. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Allocated Time
Learned Helplessness
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
38. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Mastery Learning
Limited Retardation
Luck
Models (Instruction)
39. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Effort
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Difficulty of the Task
40. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Confidence Interval
Subschemata
Working or Short-Term Memory
41. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
T-Scores
Phonology
Specific Learning Outcomes
Synthesized Modeling
42. 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.
Analogies
Educational Goals
Test Bias
Teaching Efficacy
43. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Normal Distribution
Metacognition
Limited Retardation
44. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Type-R Conditioning
Conventional Morality
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Seriation
45. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Semantic Memory
Forgetting
Intermittent Retardation
Construct Validity
46. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Automaticity
Socioeconomic Status
Fluency Disorders
Self-Regulation
47. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Chunking
Response Set
Tracking
Enrichment Programs
48. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Reciprocal Teaching
Semantic Memory
Allocated Time
Generalized Reinforcer
49. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Attribution Theory
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Accelerated Programs
50. 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.
Impulsivity
Public Law 94-142
Motivation
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
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