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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Instructional Theory
Effort
Mnemonic Devices
Functional Fixedness
2. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Preconventional Morality
Task Analysis
Mastery Grading Scales
Formative Evaluation
3. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Identity Achievement
Impulsivity
Means-Ends Analysis
4. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Intermittent Retardation
Encoding
Means-Ends Analysis
5. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Reading
Mild Retardation
Inclusion
6. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Identity Diffusion
Criterion-Related Validity
Expected Outcomes
General (or High-Road) Transfer
7. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Cooing
Token Economy
Educational Psychology
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
8. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Iconic Storage Register
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Rehearsal
Reading
9. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Cultural Differences Theories
Expository Advance Organizers
Moderate Retardation
Z-Scores
10. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Internal Locus of Control
Dyslexia
Withitness
Cognitive Objectives
11. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Mental Retardation
Behavioral Theory
Test-Retest Reliability
Psychomotor Objectives
12. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Social Inferences
Construct Validity
Learning Disability
13. The sensory register for visual information.
Class Inclusion
Construct Validity
Reciprocal Determinism
Iconic Storage Register
14. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Phonemes
Episodic Memory
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Tracking
15. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Elaborative Encoding
Reading
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Generalized Reinforcer
16. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Inattention
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Questioning Techniques
17. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Psychometrics
Centration
Time-Out
18. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Demonstrations
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Corporal Punishment
Content Validity
19. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Mastery Grading Scales
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Expressive Disorders
Phonology
20. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Self-Determination Theory
Reciprocal Determinism
General Exploratory Activities
Reversibility
21. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Proactive Interference
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Reinforcer
Comparative Advance Organizers
22. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Models (Instruction)
Withitness
Criterion-Referenced Testing
23. 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.
Proactive Interference
Conditioning
Mastery Learning
Identity Diffusion
24. 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).
Psychometrics
Growth Needs
Concept-Driven Models
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
25. 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
Episodic Memory
Two-Store Model
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
26. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Absolute Grading Standards
Semantic Memory
Aptitude Tests
Visual Impairment
27. 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).
Preconventional Morality
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Learned Helplessness
Reversibility
28. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Primary Reinforcer
Scheduled Time
Mastery Grading Scales
Group Training Experiences
29. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Procedural Memory
Transformation
Organization
Communication
30. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Phonology
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Cooing
31. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Engaged Time
Synthetic Intelligence
32. 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
Descriptive Statistics
Absolute Grading Standards
Public Law 94-142
33. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Descriptive Statistics
Socioeconomic Status
Identity Achievement
Cooperative Learning
34. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Method of Loci
Forgetting
Long-Term Memory
Gender Role
35. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Vicarious Learning
Maturation
Phonics Approach
Pedagogy
36. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Pragmatics
Hearing Impairment
Group Training Experiences
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
37. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Invincibility Fallacy
Specific Learning Outcomes
38. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Allocated Time
Acronym
Holophrastic Speech
39. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Self-Determination Theory
Syntax
Social Inferences
Practical Intelligence
40. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
IDEAL Strategy
Code Emphasis Strategy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Academic Learning Time
41. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Hyperactivity
Growth Needs
Clustering
Validity
42. How relevant a test is at face value.
Withitness
Confidence Interval
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Face Validity
43. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Inclusion
Token Economy
T-Scores
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
44. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Attribution Theory
Descriptive Statistics
Reinforcer
45. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Elaboration
Criterion-Related Validity
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Algorithm
46. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Long-Term Memory
Seriation
Behavior Disorders
Problem Solving
47. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Exceptional Learners
Achievement Motivation
Self-Efficacy
Premack Principle
48. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Derived Score
Phonemes
Descriptive Statistics
Response Set
49. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Pervasive Retardation
Mnemonic Devices
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Z-Scores
50. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Achievement Test Battery
Personal Fable
Intermittent Retardation
Dyslexia