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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Attention
Mental Retardation
Centration
2. A theory which states that how students view the world determines their motivation and behavior. This theory attempts to explain how people account for their successes and failures. In general - students attribute their successes to their innate abil
General Exploratory Activities
Z-Scores
Attribution Theory
Luck
3. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
4. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Learned Helplessness
Achievement Motivation
Subschemata
Educational Psychology
5. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Intrinsic Motivation
Self-Regulation
Moderate Retardation
6. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Academic Learning Time
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Pedagogy
Responsibility
7. 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.
Mild Retardation
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Constructivism
Transitivity
8. 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)
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9. 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.
External Locus of Control
Encoding
Brainstorming
Analogies
10. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Mild Retardation
Accelerated Programs
Active teaching
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
11. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
Gender Role
Proactive Interference
Concurrent Validity
12. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Absolute Grading Standards
Conditioning
Reversibility
13. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Phonics Approach
Reversibility
Social Inferences
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
14. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Cooperative Learning
Communication
Semantics
Instructional Objectives
15. 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.
Confidence Interval
Classification
Iconic Storage Register
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
16. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Cooing
Withitness
Means-Ends Analysis
Fluency Disorders
17. 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.
Brainstorming
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Shaping
General Objectives
18. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Clustering
Transfer of Information
Conditioning
Community-Based Education Programs
19. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Mental Retardation
Retrieval
Generative learning
20. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Real Self-Efficacy
Gifted and Talented Children
Feedback Loop
Derived Score
21. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Operant Behavior
Automaticity
Seriation
Reversibility
22. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Cultural Differences Theories
Chunking
Reading
Invincibility Fallacy
23. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Comparative Advance Organizers
External Locus of Control
24. 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.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Mental Retardation
Elaborative Encoding
Critical pedagogy
25. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Encoding
External Locus of Control
26. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Motivation
Token Economy
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Enrichment Programs
27. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Stability
Echoic Storage Register
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Type-S Conditioning
28. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Cooperative Learning
Assertive Discipline
Instruction
29. 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.
Mastery Grading Scales
Echoic Storage Register
Impulsivity
Summative Evaluation
30. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Hyperactivity
Identity Diffusion
Transformation
Attribution Theory
31. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
T-Scores
Primary Reinforcer
Extrinsic Motivation
Engaged Time
32. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Phonics Approach
Analytical Intelligence
Chunking
33. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Attention
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Episodic Memory
34. 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
Mastery Grading Scales
Conditioning
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Brainstorming
35. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Cooperative Learning
Self-Regulation
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Expressive Disorders
36. How capable one actually is.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Stability
Real Self-Efficacy
Allocated Time
37. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Working-Backward Strategy
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Reading
38. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Static Assessment Approach
IDEAL Strategy
Expected Outcomes
39. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Episodic Memory
Character Education Programs
Visual Impairment
Derived Score
40. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Heuristics
Fluency Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Transitivity
41. 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.
Fluency Disorders
Critical pedagogy
Organization
Mastery Grading Scales
42. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Syntax
Generative learning
Response Set
Social Inferences
43. The ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same - even when it changes form. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Postconventional Morality
Conservation
Test-Retest Reliability
Standard Error of Estimate
44. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Instructional Theory
Pragmatics
Object-Relations Theory
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
45. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Algorithm
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Group Consequences
General (or High-Road) Transfer
46. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Reading
47. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Affective Objectives
Concept-Driven Models
Law of Effect
Holophrastic Speech
48. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Achievement Motivation
Hearing Impairment
Time-Out
49. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Taxonomy
Shaping
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Reliability
50. 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
Analytical Intelligence
IDEAL Strategy
Two-sigma problem