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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Foreclosure
Cognitive Objectives
Behavioral Theory
IDEAL Strategy
2. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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3. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Accelerated Programs
Communication
Identity
Semantic Memory
4. 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.
Language Experience Strategy
Character Education Programs
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Automaticity
5. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Mastery Learning
Assertive Discipline
Expository Teaching
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
6. 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).
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Test Bias
Exceptional Learners
Preconventional Morality
7. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Phonology
Self-Determination Theory
Reliability
Gender Role
8. 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.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Learning Disabilities
Psychomotor Objectives
Mastery Learning
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.
Intermittent Retardation
Encoding
Gender Identity
Heuristics
10. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Postconventional Morality
Psychomotor Objectives
Primary Reinforcer
Episodic Memory
11. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Babbling
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
IDEAL Strategy
Performance-Based Test Strategies
12. 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.
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Performance Grading Scales
Subschemata
Norm-Referenced Testing
13. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Reading
Intermittent Retardation
Demonstrations
Chunking
14. 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
General Objectives
Learned Helplessness
Social Cognition
15. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Accelerated Programs
Conditioning
Centration
Fluency Disorders
16. 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.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Analogies
Self-Regulation
Transitional Bilingual Programs
17. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Secondary Reinforcer
Validity
Cooperative Learning
18. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Elaboration
Practical Intelligence
Direct instruction
19. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Intrinsic Motivation
Scheduled Time
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
20. 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.
Visual Impairment
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
21. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Automaticity
Limited Retardation
Construct Validity
Babbling
22. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Expected Outcomes
T-Scores
Echoic Storage Register
Means-Ends Analysis
23. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Language Experience Strategy
Conditioning
Academic Learning Time
Jigsaw II
24. The study of how students learn and develop.
Educational Psychology
Derived Score
Encoding
Time-Out
25. Internalized self-talk.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Inner Speech
Internal Locus of Control
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
26. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Visual Impairment
Internalization
Summative Evaluation
Perception
27. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Achievement Tests
Instruction
28. 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.
Constructivism
Identity Diffusion
Keyword
Models (Observational Learning)
29. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Mental Retardation
Enrichment Programs
Normal Distribution
Invincibility Fallacy
30. The study of the meaning behind words.
Long-Term Memory
Semantics
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Preconventional Morality
31. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Educational Psychology
Receptive Language Disorders
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Expected Outcomes
32. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Time-Out
Type-R Conditioning
Internalization
33. How relevant a test is at face value.
Face Validity
Acronym
Forgetting
Exhibition
34. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Face Validity
Postconventional Morality
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
35. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Triarchic Theory
Phonemes
Simple Moral Education Programs
Phonology
36. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Growth Needs
Acronym
Standard Error of Estimate
Transformation
37. 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.
Achievement Motivation
IDEAL Strategy
Class Inclusion
Mild Retardation
38. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Vicarious Learning
Descriptive Grading Scales
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Expressive Disorders
39. 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 intrinsic to the student.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Real Self-Efficacy
Ability
Transfer of Information
40. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is internal needs.
Symbolic Modeling
attrition
Generalized Reinforcer
Human Needs Theory
41. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Synthesized Modeling
Respondent Behavior
Severe and Profound Retardation
Analytical Intelligence
42. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Hearing Impairment
Learning Disability
Personal Fable
43. 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
Pivotal Response Therapy
Comparative Advance Organizers
Percentile Scores
Reliability
44. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Acronym
Direct instruction
Feedback Loop
Operant Behavior
45. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Schemata
Long-Term Memory
Confidence Interval
Achievement Motivation
46. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
General Objectives
Corporal Punishment
Formative Evaluation
Socioeconomic Status
47. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Rehearsal
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Tracking
Babbling
48. 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
Instruction
Seriation
Generative learning
Withitness
49. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Social Cognition
Classification
Respondent Behavior
50. 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.
Conservation
Long-Term Memory
Absolute Grading Standards
Inattention
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