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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Cultural Differences Theories
Teaching Efficacy
Expected Outcomes
Forgetting
2. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
T-Scores
Organization
Transitivity
3. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
General Objectives
Exhibition
Synthetic Intelligence
Hearing Impairment
4. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Test-Retest Reliability
Fluency Disorders
Instructional Theory
5. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Identity
Keyword
Synthetic Intelligence
Cognitive Objectives
6. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Learning Disability
Type-S Conditioning
Educational Psychology
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
7. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Task Analysis
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Metacognition
8. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Summative Evaluation
Secondary Reinforcer
Mastery Grading Scales
Data-Driven Models
9. How relevant a test is at face value.
Intermittent Retardation
Social Learning and Expectancy
Personal Fable
Face Validity
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
Sensory Register
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Active teaching
Behavior Disorders
11. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Functional Fixedness
Brainstorming
Perception
Stability
12. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Cognitive Objectives
Character Education Programs
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Forgetting
13. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Retrieval
Reciprocal Teaching
Type-S Conditioning
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
14. 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
Working or Short-Term Memory
Reciprocal Determinism
Voice Disorders
15. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Communication
Functional Fixedness
Keyword
Cooperative Learning
16. 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).
Reciprocal Determinism
Conventional Morality
Extrinsic Motivation
Development
17. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
IDEAL Strategy
Aptitude Tests
Mild Retardation
Character
18. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Instruction
Invincibility Fallacy
Identity
Language Experience Strategy
19. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Motivation
Seriation
Epilepsy
Demonstrations
20. Those one observes.
Critical pedagogy
Models (Observational Learning)
Engaged Time
Transformation
21. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Learning Disability
Affective Objectives
Elaboration
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
22. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Direct instruction
Models (Instruction)
Identity
Law of Effect
23. 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
Two-Store Model
Secondary Reinforcer
Heuristics
External Locus of Control
24. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Heuristics
Extensive Retardation
Expected Outcomes
Demonstrations
25. 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.
Accelerated Programs
Problem Solving
Norm-Referenced Testing
Generative learning
26. A form of negative punishment where something wanted by the student will be taken away if he or she behaves in an undesirable way.
Response-Cost System
Criterion-Related Validity
Respondent Behavior
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
27. The sensory register for auditory information.
Echoic Storage Register
Pedagogy
Keyword
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
28. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Construct Validity
Epilepsy
Decay
29. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Models (Observational Learning)
Decay
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
30. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
T-Scores
Phonology
Instruction
General Exploratory Activities
31. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Allocated Time
Gender Role
Assertive Discipline
Inclusion
32. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Schemata
Engaged Time
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Models (Observational Learning)
33. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Type-S Conditioning
Clustering
Character Education Programs
Identity Achievement
34. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Time-Out
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Social Inferences
Inner Speech
35. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Episodic Memory
Whole Language Approach
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Concurrent Validity
36. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Cooing
Achievement Tests
Construct Validity
Exceptional Learners
37. 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.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Development
Absolute Grading Standards
Jigsaw II
38. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Real Self-Efficacy
Guided Discovery
Constructivism
Norm-Referenced Testing
39. 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).
Inclusion
Human Needs Theory
Growth Needs
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
40. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Conditioning
Extrinsic Motivation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Character
41. 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
Stability
Self-Efficacy
Response-Cost System
Internal Locus of Control
42. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Seriation
Behavioral Theory
43. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Reversibility
Construct Validity
Critical pedagogy
Respondent Behavior
44. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Dyslexia
Difficulty of the Task
45. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Learned Helplessness
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Shaping
Cultural Deficit Theories
46. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Ability
Preconventional Morality
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
47. 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.
Academic Learning Time
Demonstrations
Automaticity
Formative Evaluation
48. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Communication
Human Needs Theory
Mild Retardation
Conditioning
49. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Observational Learning
Law of Effect
Phonemes
50. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Metacognition
Whole Language Approach
Elaborative Encoding
Validity