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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Z-Scores
Two-sigma problem
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Group Training Experiences
2. 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.
Group Training Experiences
Luck
Critical pedagogy
Concurrent Validity
3. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Iconic Storage Register
Syntax
Vicarious Learning
4. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
General Exploratory Activities
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Code Emphasis Strategy
Achievement Tests
5. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Social Cognition
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Operant Behavior
6. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Psychomotor Objectives
Conditioning
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Retroactive Interference
7. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Extensive Retardation
Identity
Retrieval
Assertive Discipline
8. All of the orderly changes which help a person better adapt to the surrounding environment.
Seriation
Development
Babbling
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
9. 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.
Hearing Impairment
Effort
Group Consequences
Models (Instruction)
10. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Standard Error of Estimate
11. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Decay
Working or Short-Term Memory
Metacognition
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
12. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Pedagogy
Automaticity
Metacognition
Stability
13. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Behavior Disorders
Receptive Language Disorders
Test Bias
Articulation Difficulties
14. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Mnemonic Devices
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
15. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Face Validity
Expository Advance Organizers
Maturation
Iconic Storage Register
16. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Enrichment Programs
Feedback Loop
Semantics
Articulation Difficulties
17. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Mnemonic Devices
Object-Relations Theory
Descriptive Statistics
Hyperactivity
18. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Development
Semantic Memory
Standard Error of Estimate
Acronym
19. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Inattention
Aptitude Tests
Syntax
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
20. 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
Internal Locus of Control
Moratorium
Triarchic Theory
Elaboration
21. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Maturation
Functional Fixedness
Comparative Advance Organizers
Expressive Disorders
22. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Deficiency Needs
IDEAL Strategy
Criterion-Related Validity
Moratorium
23. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Impulsivity
Type-R Conditioning
Phonemes
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
24. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Acronym
Reading
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Expository Advance Organizers
25. 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.
Self-Determination Theory
Language Experience Strategy
Decay
Formative Evaluation
26. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Tracking
Portfolio
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
External Locus of Control
27. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Predictive Validity
Models (Observational Learning)
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
28. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Receptive Language Disorders
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Mastery Grading Scales
Pivotal Response Therapy
29. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Analogies
Procedural Memory
Retroactive Interference
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
30. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Epilepsy
Visual Impairment
Episodic Memory
attrition
31. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Derived Score
Gender Role
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Performance Grading Scales
32. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Language Experience Strategy
Classification
Instruction
Limited Retardation
33. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Shaping
At-Risk Students
Object-Relations Theory
34. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Confidence Interval
Retrieval
Phonology
Gender Bias
35. 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.
Models (Instruction)
Formative Evaluation
Acronym
Conditioning
36. 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
Standard Error of Estimate
Whole Language Approach
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Language System
37. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Exhibition
Contingency Contracting
Self-Regulation
38. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Automaticity
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Shaping
39. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Episodic Memory
Development
Algorithm
40. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Psychometrics
Heuristics
Criterion-Referenced Testing
41. 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.
Performance Grading Scales
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Expository Teaching
Criterion-Related Validity
42. 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
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Conventional Morality
Effort
43. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Keyword
Norm-Referenced Testing
Ability
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
44. Disabilities that affect children with average or above average intelligence who nevertheless have difficulty with some aspect of learning - such as reading - writing - or solving problems.
Exhibition
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Cooperative Learning
Learning Disabilities
45. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Token Economy
Cultural Deficit Theories
Data-Driven Models
Luck
46. A group of disorders characterized by inappropriate behaviors that inhibit students from getting along well with others.
Mastery Learning
Observational Learning
Behavior Disorders
Direct instruction
47. 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)
48. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Mild Retardation
Behavioral Theory
Babbling
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
49. A kind of testing the teacher uses to measure the students' mastery of a particular subject. These tests are used in a student's final grade.
Operant Behavior
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Summative Evaluation
Analytical Intelligence
50. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Epilepsy
Norm-Referenced Testing
Brainstorming
Meaning Emphasis Strategy