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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Content Validity
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Formative Evaluation
Elaboration
2. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Generalized Reinforcer
Syntax
Practical Intelligence
Socioeconomic Status
3. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Respondent Behavior
Allocated Time
Gifted and Talented Children
Identity Diffusion
4. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Fluency Disorders
Responsibility
Conditioning
Anxiety Disorders
5. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
Exceptional Learners
Keyword
Jigsaw II
6. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Achievement Motivation
Responsibility
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Task Analysis
7. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Social Cognition
General Exploratory Activities
Severe and Profound Retardation
Instructional Theory
8. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Retroactive Interference
Questioning Techniques
Moratorium
9. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Long-Term Memory
Generative learning
Rehearsal
10. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Communication
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Analytical Intelligence
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
11. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Achievement Tests
Reliability
Guided Discovery
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
12. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Norm Group
Formative Evaluation
Episodic Memory
Inclusion
13. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Practical Intelligence
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Articulation Difficulties
Voice Disorders
14. 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).
Feedback Loop
Rehearsal
Conventional Morality
Inattention
15. The sensory register for auditory information.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Internalization
Vicarious Learning
Echoic Storage Register
16. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Achievement Motivation
Communication
Severe and Profound Retardation
Identity
17. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Holophrastic Speech
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Construct Validity
Educational Psychology
18. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Chunking
Law of Effect
Primary Reinforcer
19. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Allocated Time
Scheduled Time
Character Education Programs
Phonology
20. 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
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Semantic Memory
Generative learning
Accelerated Programs
21. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Transitivity
Triarchic Theory
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Standard Error of Estimate
22. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Elaborative Encoding
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Practical Intelligence
Concurrent Validity
23. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Mastery Grading Scales
Phonics Approach
Communication
Reciprocal Determinism
24. How relevant a test is at face value.
Encoding
Phonics Approach
Guided Discovery
Face Validity
25. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Face Validity
Community-Based Education Programs
Algorithm
26. 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.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Chunking
Identity Diffusion
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
27. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Babbling
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
28. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Heuristics
Babbling
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Gender Identity
29. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Critical pedagogy
Contingency Contracting
Responsibility
Type-R Conditioning
30. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Visual Impairment
Self-Regulation
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Preconventional Morality
31. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
IDEAL Strategy
Assertive Discipline
Encoding
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
32. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
At-Risk Students
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Cooing
Social Learning and Expectancy
33. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Demonstrations
Reciprocal Teaching
Exceptional Learners
Responsibility
34. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Instructional Theory
Achievement Motivation
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Conditioning
35. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Demonstrations
Automaticity
Transitivity
Iconic Storage Register
36. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Synthetic Intelligence
Heuristics
37. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Group Training Experiences
Luck
Mastery Learning
Proactive Interference
38. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Learning Disabilities
Object-Relations Theory
Clustering
Concurrent Validity
39. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
IDEAL Strategy
Advance Organizer
Academic Learning Time
Learning Disability
40. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Dyslexia
Working-Backward Strategy
Gifted and Talented Children
Holophrastic Speech
41. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Reciprocal Determinism
Concept-Driven Models
Derived Score
Psychomotor Objectives
42. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Aptitude Tests
Brainstorming
Working-Backward Strategy
43. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Task Analysis
Conservation
Norm Group
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
44. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Instructional Theory
Group Consequences
Reading
Syntax
45. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Token Economy
Taxonomy
Hearing Impairment
46. 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.
Elaboration
Absolute Grading Standards
Conventional Morality
Engaged Time
47. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Instruction
Symbolic Modeling
48. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Communication
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Attention
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
49. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Portfolio
Psychomotor Objectives
Predictive Validity
50. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Fluency Disorders
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Corporal Punishment
Pedagogy