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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Pedagogy
Class Inclusion
Phonics Approach
Attention
2. The study of how students learn and develop.
Proactive Interference
Derived Score
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Educational Psychology
3. 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).
Deficiency Needs
Reversibility
Internalization
Hyperactivity
4. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Instructional Objectives
Reversibility
Psychomotor Objectives
5. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Articulation Difficulties
T-Scores
Demonstrations
Mental Retardation
6. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Portfolio
Time-Out
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
7. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Academic Learning Time
Human Needs Theory
Self-Determination Theory
Derived Score
8. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Models (Observational Learning)
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Identity Achievement
9. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Stability
Group Consequences
Respondent Behavior
10. 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
Aptitude Tests
Self-Efficacy
Transfer of Information
Language System
11. 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 (
Postconventional Morality
Generalized Reinforcer
Pedagogy
Retrieval
12. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Descriptive Statistics
Fluency Disorders
Conditioning
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
13. A theory that proposes there are both external and internal motivational factors. According to this theory - there are two components behind motivation: the personal value of the endeavor and one's perceived ability to accomplish it.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Social Learning and Expectancy
Luck
Mnemonic Devices
14. A prediction which causes itself to become true. In educational psychology - the teacher's expectations about a student's success almost always come true - regardless of whether or not the expectations were backed by truth.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Communication
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
15. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Articulation Difficulties
Intrinsic Motivation
Mental Retardation
Invincibility Fallacy
16. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Corporal Punishment
Respondent Behavior
Limited Retardation
Expected Outcomes
17. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Retroactive Interference
Direct Modeling
Teaching Efficacy
Content Validity
18. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
General Objectives
Effort
Automaticity
Moderate Retardation
19. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Feedback Loop
Mental Retardation
Phonemes
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
20. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Motivation
Contingency Contracting
Concept-Driven Models
Responsibility
21. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Instructional Objectives
Two-sigma problem
Learning Disabilities
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
22. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Brainstorming
Demonstrations
Code Emphasis Strategy
Internalization
23. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Limited Retardation
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Conventional Morality
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).
Conditioning
Percentile Scores
Growth Needs
Reciprocal Determinism
25. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Maturation
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Iconic Storage Register
Dyslexia
26. 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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27. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Inner Speech
Mental Retardation
Phonology
Mild Retardation
28. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Group Training Experiences
Reciprocal Teaching
Primary Reinforcer
Means-Ends Analysis
29. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Community-Based Education Programs
Means-Ends Analysis
Retrieval
Individual and Small-Group Activities
30. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Encoding
Receptive Language Disorders
Human Needs Theory
Clustering
31. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Pedagogy
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
32. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Internal Locus of Control
Public Law 94-142
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Learning Disabilities
33. 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
General Objectives
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Conditioning
34. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Jigsaw II
Conventional Morality
Seriation
Semantics
35. 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.
Token Economy
Mastery Grading Scales
Concept-Driven Models
Criterion-Related Validity
36. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Foreclosure
Synthesized Modeling
Operant Behavior
Two-Store Model
37. 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.
Reciprocal Teaching
Norm-Referenced Testing
Personal Fable
Advance Organizer
38. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Algorithm
Assertive Discipline
Subschemata
Allocated Time
39. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Law of Effect
Responsibility
Mental Retardation
Critical pedagogy
40. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Identity
Invincibility Fallacy
Transfer of Information
Shaping
41. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Chunking
Stability
Growth Needs
Decay
42. The sensory register for visual information.
Iconic Storage Register
Cognitive Objectives
Class Inclusion
Descriptive Statistics
43. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Algorithm
Long-Term Memory
Mnemonic Devices
Method of Loci
44. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Working-Backward Strategy
Foreclosure
Comparative Advance Organizers
Demonstrations
45. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Construct Validity
Expressive Disorders
Object-Relations Theory
Behavior Disorders
46. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Retroactive Interference
Episodic Memory
Pervasive Retardation
47. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Questioning Techniques
Norm-Referenced Testing
Concept-Driven Models
Comparative Advance Organizers
48. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Advance Organizer
Organization
Achievement Motivation
Semantics
49. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Seriation
Mild Retardation
attrition
Chunking
50. 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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