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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Criterion-Related Validity
Inclusion
Semantic Memory
At-Risk Students
2. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Method of Loci
Behavior Disorders
Response-Cost System
Character
3. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
External Locus of Control
Identity Achievement
Exceptional Learners
Practical Intelligence
4. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Portfolio
Inattention
Withitness
Criterion-Referenced Testing
5. 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.
Formative Evaluation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Code Emphasis Strategy
6. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Instruction
Self-Determination Theory
Test-Retest Reliability
7. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Gifted and Talented Children
Internal Locus of Control
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Response-Cost System
8. Those one observes.
Models (Observational Learning)
Perception
Attribution Theory
Moratorium
9. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Norm Group
At-Risk Students
Enrichment Programs
Gender Bias
10. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Epilepsy
Dyslexia
Impulsivity
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
11. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Performance Grading Scales
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Whole Language Approach
Time-Out
12. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Concurrent Validity
Affective Objectives
Reading
Pragmatics
13. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Expected Outcomes
Language System
Critical pedagogy
14. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Phonemes
Exhibition
Practical Intelligence
Normal Distribution
15. 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.
Extrinsic Motivation
Shaping
Response Set
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
16. 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.
Pragmatics
Character
Internal Locus of Control
Keyword
17. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Elaboration
Retrieval
Comparative Advance Organizers
Episodic Memory
18. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Portfolio
Forgetting
Seriation
Pragmatics
19. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Gender Identity
Cultural Differences Theories
Allocated Time
20. 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.
Brainstorming
Phonics Approach
Object-Relations Theory
Sensory Register
21. Relating current information with previous learning.
Extrinsic Motivation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Analogies
Synthetic Intelligence
22. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Automaticity
Development
Forgetting
Assertive Discipline
23. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Mastery Grading Scales
Guided Discovery
24. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Expository Teaching
Norm Group
Dynamic Assessment Approach
25. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Task Analysis
Identity Achievement
Reliability
Learning Disabilities
26. How relevant a test is at face value.
Formative Evaluation
Face Validity
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Postconventional Morality
27. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Gifted and Talented Children
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
At-Risk Students
28. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Inclusion
Semantic Memory
Learned Helplessness
Content Validity
29. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Attribution Theory
Maturation
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
30. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Observational Learning
Acronym
Anxiety Disorders
Corporal Punishment
31. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Instructional Objectives
Feedback Loop
Guided Discovery
Law of Effect
32. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Observational Learning
Norm-Referenced Testing
Synthesized Modeling
Feedback Loop
33. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Guided Discovery
Expository Advance Organizers
Holophrastic Speech
34. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Test Bias
Synthetic Intelligence
Language System
Response Set
35. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Generative learning
Predictive Validity
Two-sigma problem
Self-Determination Theory
36. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Analogies
Human Needs Theory
Reading
attrition
37. 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.
Socioeconomic Status
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Hyperactivity
38. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
attrition
Luck
Face Validity
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
39. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Phonology
Corporal Punishment
Mastery Learning
Transformation
40. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Sensory Register
Critical pedagogy
Allocated Time
General (or High-Road) Transfer
41. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Critical pedagogy
Summative Evaluation
T-Scores
Response Set
42. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Moratorium
Z-Scores
Syntax
Corporal Punishment
43. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Synthetic Intelligence
Norm Group
Proactive Interference
Gender Identity
44. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Affective Objectives
Working or Short-Term Memory
45. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Transformation
attrition
Jigsaw II
Content Validity
46. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Exhibition
Voice Disorders
Schemata
Summative Evaluation
47. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Behavior Disorders
Gifted and Talented Children
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Maturation
48. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Clustering
Rehearsal
Constructivism
Vicarious Learning
49. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Performance Grading Scales
Teaching Efficacy
50. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Mild Retardation
Mastery Grading Scales
Contingency Contracting
Norm Group
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