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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Responsibility
Morphemes
2. Relating current information with previous learning.
Synthetic Intelligence
Analogies
Pedagogy
Phonics Approach
3. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Perception
attrition
Maturation
Synthesized Modeling
4. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Synthetic Intelligence
Taxonomy
Language Experience Strategy
Inattention
5. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Generative learning
Data-Driven Models
Community-Based Education Programs
Descriptive Statistics
6. Taxonomies dealing with the different cognitive abilities the student should develop.
Conditioning
Cognitive Objectives
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Responsibility
7. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Long-Term Memory
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Cultural Deficit Theories
8. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Reading
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Group Consequences
Means-Ends Analysis
9. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Analytical Intelligence
Law of Effect
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
10. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Two-sigma problem
Accelerated Programs
Z-Scores
Transitional Bilingual Programs
11. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Engaged Time
Feedback Loop
Articulation Difficulties
Corporal Punishment
12. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Babbling
T-Scores
Development
Social Inferences
13. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
Learning Disabilities
Pivotal Response Therapy
Norm Group
14. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Pragmatics
Schemata
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Impulsivity
15. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Attention
Foreclosure
Sensory Register
Two-Store Model
16. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Static Assessment Approach
Growth Needs
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Public Law 94-142
17. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Moratorium
Achievement Test Battery
Forgetting
18. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Reversibility
Clustering
Normal Distribution
Identity
19. 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.
Constructivism
Withitness
Hearing Impairment
Behavioral Theory
20. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Mental Retardation
Limited Retardation
Mastery Grading Scales
Psychomotor Objectives
21. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Dyslexia
Face Validity
Behavioral Theory
Assertive Discipline
22. 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.
Educational Goals
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Group Training Experiences
23. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Human Needs Theory
Achievement Tests
External Locus of Control
Cultural Differences Theories
24. 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).
Synthetic Intelligence
Chunking
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Growth Needs
25. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Social Inferences
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Performance Grading Scales
26. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Classification
Moderate Retardation
Code Emphasis Strategy
27. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Syntax
Planned Ignoring
Expected Outcomes
Simple Moral Education Programs
28. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Planned Ignoring
Centration
Self-Regulation
Mnemonic Devices
29. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Planned Ignoring
Organization
Keyword
Assertive Discipline
30. The study of the meaning behind words.
Expressive Disorders
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Semantics
Identity Diffusion
31. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Reciprocal Teaching
Mental Retardation
Motivation
Performance-Based Test Strategies
32. A level of moral reasoning guided by rewards and punishments - developed by Kohlberg. This level is further divided into two stages: stage 1 (adherence to rules to please authority figures) and stage 2 (follow rules that satisfy one's needs).
Expository Advance Organizers
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Preconventional Morality
Derived Score
33. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Centration
Z-Scores
Operant Behavior
Contingency Contracting
34. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Practical Intelligence
Babbling
Generalized Reinforcer
Portfolio
35. 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.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Decay
Luck
Portfolio
36. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Character Education Programs
Comparative Advance Organizers
Content Validity
37. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Inner Speech
Achievement Tests
Fluency Disorders
Identity
38. Relating new information to that previously learned.
Active teaching
Learning Disability
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Elaboration
39. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Achievement Tests
Reliability
At-Risk Students
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
40. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Achievement Tests
Real Self-Efficacy
Social Learning and Expectancy
41. 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.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Aptitude Tests
Test-Retest Reliability
Absolute Grading Standards
42. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Synthesized Modeling
At-Risk Students
Instructional Theory
Self-Efficacy
43. 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.
Encoding
Code Emphasis Strategy
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
44. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Mild Retardation
Specific Learning Outcomes
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
45. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Pervasive Retardation
Mild Retardation
Face Validity
46. 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
Language System
Content Validity
Specific Learning Outcomes
Two-Store Model
47. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Norm Group
Limited Retardation
Phonics Approach
Test-Retest Reliability
48. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Enrichment Programs
Clustering
Standard Error of Estimate
49. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Two-sigma problem
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Aptitude Tests
Subschemata
50. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Deficiency Needs
Accelerated Programs
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Analytical Intelligence