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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Transfer of Information
Law of Effect
Academic Learning Time
Percentile Scores
2. 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
Instruction
Validity
Descriptive Statistics
Working or Short-Term Memory
3. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Synthesized Modeling
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Academic Learning Time
4. 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
Long-Term Memory
Personal Fable
Gifted and Talented Children
5. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Hyperactivity
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Mastery Learning
Transitional Bilingual Programs
6. 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
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Generative learning
Critical pedagogy
Language System
7. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Reciprocal Teaching
Psychomotor Objectives
Transitivity
8. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Invincibility Fallacy
Mastery Grading Scales
Mental Retardation
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
9. 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).
Functional Fixedness
Growth Needs
Object-Relations Theory
Sensory Register
10. 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.
Reading
Teaching Efficacy
Difficulty of the Task
Derived Score
11. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Educational Goals
Receptive Language Disorders
Social Learning and Expectancy
Gender Role
12. 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
Public Law 94-142
Token Economy
Attribution Theory
Two-Store Model
13. How relevant a test is at face value.
Analytical Intelligence
Face Validity
Intermittent Retardation
Character Education Programs
14. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Engaged Time
Token Economy
15. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Premack Principle
Organization
Internal Locus of Control
Language System
16. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Content Validity
Semantic Memory
T-Scores
17. The results one expects from different behaviors.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
External Locus of Control
Expected Outcomes
Limited Retardation
18. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Method of Loci
Foreclosure
Norm Group
19. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Method of Loci
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Seriation
20. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Character Education Programs
Practical Intelligence
Working-Backward Strategy
Concept-Driven Models
21. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Anxiety Disorders
Ability
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Face Validity
22. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Semantics
Object-Relations Theory
Instruction
Dynamic Assessment Approach
23. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Confidence Interval
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Classification
Acronym
24. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Task Analysis
Chunking
Comparative Advance Organizers
Demonstrations
25. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Response Set
Secondary Reinforcer
Real Self-Efficacy
Percentile Scores
26. 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).
Scheduled Time
Test-Retest Reliability
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Conventional Morality
27. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Personal Fable
Object-Relations Theory
Response-Cost System
28. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Character Education Programs
Maturation
29. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Construct Validity
Cognitive Objectives
Analogies
Semantic Memory
30. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Fluency Disorders
Performance Grading Scales
Object-Relations Theory
Seriation
31. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Construct Validity
Scheduled Time
Assertive Discipline
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
32. 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.
Mental Retardation
At-Risk Students
Criterion-Related Validity
Secondary Reinforcer
33. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Cultural Differences Theories
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Z-Scores
Method of Loci
34. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Observational Learning
Specific Learning Outcomes
Type-R Conditioning
Luck
35. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Achievement Tests
Retroactive Interference
Pedagogy
Generative learning
36. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Descriptive Statistics
Gender Identity
Phonemes
37. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Primary Reinforcer
Phonemes
Concurrent Validity
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
38. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Visual Impairment
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Language Experience Strategy
Exceptional Learners
39. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Forgetting
Code Emphasis Strategy
40. 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
Generalized Reinforcer
Guided Discovery
Self-Efficacy
Descriptive Statistics
41. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Formative Evaluation
Academic Learning Time
Episodic Memory
Cultural Deficit Theories
42. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Cultural Differences Theories
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Attribution Theory
43. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Problem Solving
Conservation
Brainstorming
44. 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
Social Learning and Expectancy
Direct instruction
Norm Group
Face Validity
45. The study of the meaning behind words.
Self-Regulation
Psychomotor Objectives
Reliability
Semantics
46. 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.
Gender Role
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Time-Out
Educational Goals
47. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Group Training Experiences
Expository Advance Organizers
Algorithm
Type-R Conditioning
48. 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.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Formative Evaluation
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Centration
49. The use of physical punishment.
Invincibility Fallacy
Intrinsic Motivation
Pivotal Response Therapy
Corporal Punishment
50. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Steiner-Waldorf Education
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Motivation
Code Emphasis Strategy