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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Intrinsic Motivation
Cooing
Gender Role
Cooperative Learning
2. 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.
Shaping
Responsibility
Moratorium
Cultural Deficit Theories
3. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
T-Scores
Phonemes
Human Needs Theory
4. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Task Analysis
Formative Evaluation
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
5. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Intermittent Retardation
Internal Locus of Control
Observational Learning
Educational Goals
6. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mild Retardation
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Concept-Driven Models
Chunking
7. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Expressive Disorders
Problem Solving
Descriptive Statistics
Absolute Grading Standards
8. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Invincibility Fallacy
Normal Distribution
Expected Outcomes
9. 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.
Object-Relations Theory
Content Validity
Concept-Driven Models
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
10. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Voice Disorders
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Test-Retest Reliability
Performance-Based Test Strategies
11. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Achievement Tests
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Acronym
Chunking
12. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Method of Loci
Self-Efficacy
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Respondent Behavior
13. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Token Economy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Character
14. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Foreclosure
Instructional Objectives
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
15. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Perception
Functional Fixedness
Semantic Memory
16. How capable one actually is.
Voice Disorders
Algorithm
Transfer of Information
Real Self-Efficacy
17. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Analytical Intelligence
Intermittent Retardation
Simple Moral Education Programs
Triarchic Theory
18. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Luck
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Identity
Code Emphasis Strategy
19. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Pragmatics
Test-Retest Reliability
Character Education Programs
Seriation
20. 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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21. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Cooperative Learning
Holophrastic Speech
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Community-Based Education Programs
22. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Primary Reinforcer
Phonemes
IDEAL Strategy
23. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Method of Loci
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Expository Advance Organizers
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
Corporal Punishment
Fluency Disorders
Self-Regulation
25. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Invincibility Fallacy
Critical pedagogy
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Criterion-Referenced Testing
26. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Group Training Experiences
Episodic Memory
Triarchic Theory
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
27. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Premack Principle
Communication
Hyperactivity
Engaged Time
28. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Mastery Grading Scales
Elaboration
Learned Helplessness
Dual Coding Hypothesis
29. Relating current information with previous learning.
Mild Retardation
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Mastery Learning
Analogies
30. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Community-Based Education Programs
Dyslexia
Organization
Demonstrations
31. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Law of Effect
Exceptional Learners
Mastery Grading Scales
32. 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.
Taxonomy
Educational Goals
General Objectives
Student Team Achievement Decisions
33. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
Performance Grading Scales
Norm Group
Assertive Discipline
Object-Relations Theory
34. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Expressive Disorders
Moderate Retardation
Centration
Advance Organizer
35. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Achievement Motivation
Learned Helplessness
Organization
36. 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
Clustering
Syntax
Operant Behavior
37. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Conventional Morality
Inattention
Educational Goals
Episodic Memory
38. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Gender Identity
Descriptive Statistics
Constructivism
39. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Expository Advance Organizers
Babbling
Tracking
Demonstrations
40. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Psychometrics
Articulation Difficulties
Self-Regulation
Identity Achievement
41. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Tracking
Reversibility
Socioeconomic Status
42. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Two-Store Model
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Receptive Language Disorders
Educational Goals
43. 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.
Subschemata
Self-Regulation
Personal Fable
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
44. A law enacted in 1975 to ensure that every exceptional learner is given instruction appropriate for his or her needs. The child should be placed in the least restrictive environment possible (i.e. spending the most time with ordinary students).
Public Law 94-142
Growth Needs
Conditioning
Reciprocal Determinism
45. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Teaching Efficacy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Foreclosure
Generalized Reinforcer
46. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Performance Grading Scales
Heuristics
Two-Store Model
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
47. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Premack Principle
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Cultural Differences Theories
Jigsaw II
48. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Norm Group
Working-Backward Strategy
Feedback Loop
49. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Percentile Scores
Fluency Disorders
Premack Principle
Z-Scores
50. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Phonics Approach
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Instructional Objectives