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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
General Objectives
Response Set
Inattention
Validity
2. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Practical Intelligence
External Locus of Control
Portfolio
3. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Mental Retardation
Elaborative Encoding
Motivation
Phonology
4. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Reciprocal Teaching
Retrieval
Character
5. The study of how students learn and develop.
Class Inclusion
Mental Retardation
Educational Psychology
Intermittent Retardation
6. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Secondary Reinforcer
Observational Learning
Cooperative Learning
7. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Formative Evaluation
Transitivity
Human Needs Theory
Mastery Grading Scales
8. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Episodic Memory
Community-Based Education Programs
Responsibility
Vicarious Learning
9. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Attention
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Cultural Differences Theories
Problem Solving
10. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Human Needs Theory
Object-Relations Theory
Exceptional Learners
Active teaching
11. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Working-Backward Strategy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Generative learning
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
12. 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.
Reading
attrition
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
13. 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
Two-Store Model
Mastery Grading Scales
Transitional Bilingual Programs
14. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Gender Bias
Mastery Learning
Educational Psychology
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
15. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Response Set
Formative Evaluation
Practical Intelligence
16. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Extrinsic Motivation
Retrieval
Means-Ends Analysis
Questioning Techniques
17. 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.
Chunking
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Human Needs Theory
Self-Regulation
18. 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.
Concept-Driven Models
Primary Reinforcer
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Absolute Grading Standards
19. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Models (Observational Learning)
Advance Organizer
Confidence Interval
Cooing
20. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.
Code Emphasis Strategy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Long-Term Memory
T-Scores
21. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Stability
Guided Discovery
Communication
Direct Modeling
22. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Receptive Language Disorders
Luck
Ability
Comparative Advance Organizers
23. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Responsibility
Fluency Disorders
Social Inferences
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
24. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Internalization
Response Set
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Anxiety Disorders
25. 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.
Assertive Discipline
Holophrastic Speech
External Locus of Control
Phonics Approach
26. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Social Inferences
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Reciprocal Determinism
27. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Behavior Disorders
Extensive Retardation
Chunking
Voice Disorders
28. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Psychometrics
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Exhibition
29. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Epilepsy
Achievement Tests
Code Emphasis Strategy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
30. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Feedback Loop
Attention
Expected Outcomes
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
31. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Exhibition
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Mental Retardation
32. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Social Cognition
Communication
Learned Helplessness
Internal Locus of Control
33. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Limited Retardation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Mental Retardation
Student Team Achievement Decisions
34. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Self-Efficacy
Extensive Retardation
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
35. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Law of Effect
Voice Disorders
Chunking
Whole Language Approach
36. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Z-Scores
T-Scores
Achievement Tests
Symbolic Modeling
37. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Affective Objectives
Encoding
Cultural Deficit Theories
Working or Short-Term Memory
38. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Mnemonic Devices
Academic Learning Time
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Identity Achievement
39. 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.
Attention
Accelerated Programs
Conservation
Generalized Reinforcer
40. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Language System
Morphemes
Retrieval
Learned Helplessness
41. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Cognitive Objectives
Analytical Intelligence
At-Risk Students
42. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.
Proactive Interference
Effort
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Working-Backward Strategy
43. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Achievement Tests
Retroactive Interference
Transitivity
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
44. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
Identity Diffusion
Portfolio
Data-Driven Models
Type-S Conditioning
45. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Time-Out
Group Consequences
Intermittent Retardation
Simple Moral Education Programs
46. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Summative Evaluation
Type-S Conditioning
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
47. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Attribution Theory
Achievement Tests
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Analytical Intelligence
48. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Achievement Tests
Severe and Profound Retardation
Advance Organizer
Withitness
49. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Demonstrations
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Exceptional Learners
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
50. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Effort
Practical Intelligence
Babbling
Mnemonic Devices