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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
Expected Outcomes
Procedural Memory
General Objectives
Hyperactivity
2. 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
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
External Locus of Control
3. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Cognitive Objectives
Public Law 94-142
Self-Efficacy
Analytical Intelligence
4. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Expository Advance Organizers
Centration
Working or Short-Term Memory
5. 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.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Symbolic Modeling
Anxiety Disorders
Reciprocal Determinism
6. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Public Law 94-142
Secondary Reinforcer
Means-Ends Analysis
Data-Driven Models
7. 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.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Triarchic Theory
8. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Centration
Conditioning
Critical pedagogy
Behavior Disorders
9. A learning model that proposes that learning is a function of the ratio between the effort needed to the effort spent learning. learning=f(time spent/time needed)
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10. 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
Specific Learning Outcomes
Active teaching
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
11. 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).
External Locus of Control
Deficiency Needs
Means-Ends Analysis
Elaborative Encoding
12. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Semantic Memory
Instruction
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Extensive Retardation
13. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Mental Retardation
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Articulation Difficulties
Questioning Techniques
14. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Inner Speech
Extensive Retardation
Whole Language Approach
Self-Determination Theory
15. 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
Attribution Theory
Expository Teaching
Feedback Loop
Direct instruction
16. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Character Education Programs
Validity
17. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Acronym
Receptive Language Disorders
Mastery Learning
Expressive Disorders
18. 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.
Transitivity
Conservation
Specific Learning Outcomes
Criterion-Referenced Testing
19. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Synthesized Modeling
Cooing
Type-S Conditioning
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
20. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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21. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Respondent Behavior
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Clustering
Exceptional Learners
22. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Identity Diffusion
Community-Based Education Programs
Subschemata
Pragmatics
23. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Vicarious Learning
Law of Effect
Elaboration
Voice Disorders
24. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Class Inclusion
Operant Behavior
Problem Solving
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
25. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Psychomotor Objectives
26. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Confidence Interval
Semantic Memory
Functional Fixedness
Pivotal Response Therapy
27. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Concept-Driven Models
Development
Heuristics
Algorithm
28. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Predictive Validity
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Gifted and Talented Children
Postconventional Morality
29. How capable one actually is.
Real Self-Efficacy
Extensive Retardation
Effort
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
30. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Cooing
Descriptive Grading Scales
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Academic Learning Time
31. A method of scaling scores using a nine-point scale with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of 2. This method is intended to minimize insignificant differences between scores.
Visual Impairment
Synthesized Modeling
Scheduled Time
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
32. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Keyword
Elaborative Encoding
Postconventional Morality
Dynamic Assessment Approach
33. 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.
Enrichment Programs
Personal Fable
Respondent Behavior
Absolute Grading Standards
34. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Secondary Reinforcer
Mastery Grading Scales
Cooing
Rehearsal
35. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Class Inclusion
Identity
Foreclosure
Active teaching
36. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Expressive Disorders
Growth Needs
Keyword
Guided Discovery
37. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Accelerated Programs
Proactive Interference
Transfer of Information
Procedural Memory
38. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Construct Validity
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Cooperative Learning
39. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Jigsaw II
Gender Identity
Cooperative Learning
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
40. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Visual Impairment
Public Law 94-142
Working-Backward Strategy
Reading
41. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Character Education Programs
Expository Teaching
Advance Organizer
Response Set
42. 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
Effort
Rehearsal
Reciprocal Teaching
Analytical Intelligence
43. 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.
Transitivity
Gender Identity
Difficulty of the Task
Validity
44. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Task Analysis
Social Inferences
Mild Retardation
Gifted and Talented Children
45. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Expected Outcomes
Internal Locus of Control
Hearing Impairment
Secondary Reinforcer
46. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Normal Distribution
Achievement Test Battery
Identity Achievement
47. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Descriptive Statistics
Fluency Disorders
Social Inferences
Steiner-Waldorf Education
48. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Group Consequences
Mental Retardation
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Educational Goals
49. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Symbolic Modeling
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Public Law 94-142
Gender Identity
50. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Episodic Memory
Moratorium
Character Education Programs