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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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
Confidence Interval
Development
Difficulty of the Task
2. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Heuristics
Responsibility
Decay
Rehearsal
3. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
attrition
Growth Needs
Reading
Gender Identity
4. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Reciprocal Determinism
Character Education Programs
Automaticity
Individual and Small-Group Activities
5. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Gender Role
Language System
Working or Short-Term Memory
Feedback Loop
6. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Cognitive Objectives
attrition
Classification
Individual and Small-Group Activities
7. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Acronym
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Development
Pedagogy
8. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Acronym
Character Education Programs
At-Risk Students
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
9. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Mastery Grading Scales
Contingency Contracting
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
10. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Phonics Approach
Cooing
Classification
Cultural Deficit Theories
11. 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.
Static Assessment Approach
Reading
Taxonomy
Organization
12. 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.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Instructional Objectives
Gender Bias
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
13. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Cooperative Learning
Whole Language Approach
Clustering
Articulation Difficulties
14. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Elaborative Encoding
Type-R Conditioning
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Psychometrics
15. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Schemata
Identity
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
General (or High-Road) Transfer
16. 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.
Motivation
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Mental Retardation
Chunking
17. 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.
Taxonomy
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Transformation
Self-Regulation
18. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Social Inferences
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Percentile Scores
19. 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.
Postconventional Morality
General Objectives
Impulsivity
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
20. 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.
Self-Regulation
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Reliability
Foreclosure
21. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Observational Learning
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Instructional Objectives
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
22. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Critical pedagogy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Encoding
Language Experience Strategy
23. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Heuristics
Practical Intelligence
Achievement Motivation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
24. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Conventional Morality
At-Risk Students
Task Analysis
Assertive Discipline
25. 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.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Mild Retardation
Criterion-Related Validity
Pedagogy
26. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Mastery Learning
Sensory Register
Visual Impairment
Accelerated Programs
27. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Phonemes
Cooing
Engaged Time
Type-S Conditioning
28. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Type-R Conditioning
Syntax
Transfer of Information
Data-Driven Models
29. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Centration
Tracking
Exhibition
30. 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.
Centration
Means-Ends Analysis
Constructivism
Expository Teaching
31. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Character Education Programs
Preconventional Morality
Normal Distribution
Mastery Learning
32. 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
Premack Principle
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Morphemes
33. 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
Self-Efficacy
Moratorium
Mental Retardation
Questioning Techniques
34. 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 external to the student.
Sensory Register
Percentile Scores
Luck
Learned Helplessness
35. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Triarchic Theory
Method of Loci
Mnemonic Devices
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
36. 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
Vicarious Learning
Generative learning
Affective Objectives
Critical pedagogy
37. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Metacognition
Psychomotor Objectives
Working-Backward Strategy
Achievement Motivation
38. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Attribution Theory
Time-Out
Long-Term Memory
Law of Effect
39. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Extensive Retardation
Allocated Time
Demonstrations
Feedback Loop
40. Those one observes.
Algorithm
Mild Retardation
Models (Observational Learning)
Character Education Programs
41. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Public Law 94-142
Cognitive Objectives
Language Experience Strategy
42. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
External Locus of Control
Motivation
Brainstorming
Behavior Disorders
43. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Centration
Object-Relations Theory
Code Emphasis Strategy
Instructional Objectives
44. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Response Set
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Withitness
Assertive Discipline
45. 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).
Visual Impairment
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Deficiency Needs
Constructivism
46. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Whole Language Approach
Mastery Grading Scales
Reinforcer
Conservation
47. 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.
Phonics Approach
Transfer of Information
Cultural Differences Theories
Task Analysis
48. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Concept-Driven Models
Hearing Impairment
Syntax
Algorithm
49. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Phonics Approach
Construct Validity
Psychomotor Objectives
Gifted and Talented Children
50. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
Feedback Loop
Epilepsy
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)