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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Engaged Time
Content Validity
Analogies
Time-Out
2. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Norm Group
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Reinforcer
3. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Demonstrations
Comparative Advance Organizers
Retrieval
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
4. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Sensory Register
Vicarious Learning
Behavioral Theory
5. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Direct Modeling
Task Analysis
Rehearsal
6. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Mental Retardation
At-Risk Students
Exhibition
Achievement Motivation
7. 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.
Means-Ends Analysis
Conventional Morality
Effort
Formative Evaluation
8. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Pedagogy
Internal Locus of Control
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
At-Risk Students
9. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Confidence Interval
Portfolio
T-Scores
Holophrastic Speech
10. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Symbolic Modeling
Perception
Retroactive Interference
Expressive Disorders
11. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Algorithm
Stability
Social Inferences
Difficulty of the Task
12. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Criterion-Related Validity
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Time-Out
Responsibility
13. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Triarchic Theory
Secondary Reinforcer
Identity
Dynamic Assessment Approach
14. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Phonemes
Mastery Grading Scales
Norm Group
Advance Organizer
15. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Organization
Pedagogy
Gender Bias
Two-sigma problem
16. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Iconic Storage Register
Extrinsic Motivation
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Clustering
17. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Schemata
Gender Identity
Responsibility
Cognitive Objectives
18. Relating current information with previous learning.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Analogies
Contingency Contracting
19. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Critical pedagogy
Pervasive Retardation
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Tracking
20. 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.
Concept-Driven Models
Summative Evaluation
Elaboration
Test Bias
21. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Cultural Differences Theories
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Type-S Conditioning
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
22. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Extensive Retardation
Maturation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
General (or High-Road) Transfer
23. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Exceptional Learners
Test Bias
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
24. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Visual Impairment
Engaged Time
Derived Score
Transformation
25. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Language System
Functional Fixedness
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Proactive Interference
26. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Instructional Objectives
Concurrent Validity
Moratorium
Character Education Programs
27. Internalized self-talk.
Z-Scores
Construct Validity
Inner Speech
Engaged Time
28. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Educational Goals
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
29. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Academic Learning Time
Norm-Referenced Testing
Social Inferences
Sensory Register
30. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Retrieval
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Anxiety Disorders
Limited Retardation
31. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Expository Advance Organizers
Exhibition
Identity Diffusion
Public Law 94-142
32. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Pedagogy
Mnemonic Devices
Exceptional Learners
Conservation
33. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Automaticity
Pivotal Response Therapy
Task Analysis
34. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Working or Short-Term Memory
Acronym
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
35. 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.
Expository Teaching
Taxonomy
Critical pedagogy
Observational Learning
36. 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.
Centration
Reciprocal Determinism
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Generative learning
37. 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.
Synthesized Modeling
Concurrent Validity
Test Bias
Episodic Memory
38. 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.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Communication
Test Bias
Difficulty of the Task
39. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Self-Efficacy
Fluency Disorders
External Locus of Control
40. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Achievement Tests
Encoding
Guided Discovery
Schemata
41. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Receptive Language Disorders
Academic Learning Time
Semantic Memory
Models (Instruction)
42. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Tracking
Language Experience Strategy
Attention
Reinforcer
43. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Articulation Difficulties
Token Economy
Pragmatics
44. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Mental Retardation
Motivation
Impulsivity
Psychomotor Objectives
45. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Syntax
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Rehearsal
Analogies
46. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Method of Loci
Mild Retardation
Maturation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
47. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Reading
Analogies
Expected Outcomes
General (or High-Road) Transfer
48. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Luck
Transfer of Information
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Whole Language Approach
49. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Conventional Morality
Subschemata
Syntax
Primary Reinforcer
50. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Primary Reinforcer
Classification
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Achievement Motivation
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