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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Learning Disabilities
Transformation
Transfer of Information
Critical pedagogy
2. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
attrition
Achievement Test Battery
3. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Identity Diffusion
Schemata
Dyslexia
Concurrent Validity
4. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Epilepsy
Accelerated Programs
Retroactive Interference
Cooing
5. 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.
Difficulty of the Task
Expository Advance Organizers
Language Experience Strategy
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
6. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Gender Role
Achievement Motivation
Respondent Behavior
7. 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 (
Operant Behavior
Enrichment Programs
Postconventional Morality
Method of Loci
8. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Pervasive Retardation
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Inner Speech
9. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Proactive Interference
Taxonomy
Identity
10. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Extensive Retardation
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Socioeconomic Status
Elaborative Encoding
11. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Cooing
Impulsivity
Inner Speech
Two-Store Model
12. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Character
Instruction
Behavior Disorders
Expository Advance Organizers
13. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Mild Retardation
Extrinsic Motivation
Gifted and Talented Children
Transitivity
14. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Fluency Disorders
Self-Regulation
Social Cognition
General Exploratory Activities
15. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Cognitive Objectives
Visual Impairment
Response Set
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
16. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Critical pedagogy
Token Economy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Stability
17. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Sensory Register
Teaching Efficacy
Two-Store Model
Individual and Small-Group Activities
18. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Echoic Storage Register
Concept-Driven Models
Motivation
Scheduled Time
19. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
T-Scores
Concept-Driven Models
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Extrinsic Motivation
20. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Group Training Experiences
Luck
Forgetting
IDEAL Strategy
21. 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
Criterion-Related Validity
Pivotal Response Therapy
Conservation
Reciprocal Teaching
22. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Internalization
Cultural Differences Theories
Articulation Difficulties
Expressive Disorders
23. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Academic Learning Time
Derived Score
Engaged Time
Moderate Retardation
24. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Class Inclusion
T-Scores
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
25. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Expository Advance Organizers
Reliability
Descriptive Grading Scales
26. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Motivation
Models (Observational Learning)
Shaping
Learning Disabilities
27. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
External Locus of Control
Morphemes
Difficulty of the Task
Mental Retardation
28. 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.
Classification
Summative Evaluation
Character
Perceived Self-Efficacy
29. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Teaching Efficacy
Predictive Validity
Voice Disorders
Transfer of Information
30. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Contingency Contracting
Gender Bias
Moratorium
Descriptive Grading Scales
31. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Inattention
Transitivity
Gender Identity
Cooperative Learning
32. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Demonstrations
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Subschemata
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
33. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Cooperative Learning
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Automaticity
Retrieval
34. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Extrinsic Motivation
Primary Reinforcer
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Generative learning
35. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Learning Disability
Gender Identity
Jigsaw II
Cooing
36. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Achievement Tests
Mental Retardation
Descriptive Statistics
Gender Role
37. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Socioeconomic Status
Keyword
Symbolic Modeling
38. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Iconic Storage Register
Primary Reinforcer
Whole Language Approach
39. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Demonstrations
Behavioral Theory
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
40. 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.
General Objectives
Internal Locus of Control
Reliability
Cognitive Objectives
41. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Validity
Preconventional Morality
Accelerated Programs
Method of Loci
42. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Reversibility
Voice Disorders
Development
Morphemes
43. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Responsibility
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Sensory Register
Perceived Self-Efficacy
44. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Reversibility
Mastery Learning
45. 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.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Heuristics
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Working or Short-Term Memory
46. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Identity
Maturation
Z-Scores
Postconventional Morality
47. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int
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48. 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.
Personal Fable
Predictive Validity
Taxonomy
Social Learning and Expectancy
49. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Transitivity
Descriptive Grading Scales
Feedback Loop
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
50. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Symbolic Modeling
Gender Identity
Phonics Approach
Class Inclusion