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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Token Economy
Effort
Ability
Retrieval
2. 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.
Expected Outcomes
Static Assessment Approach
Educational Goals
Summative Evaluation
3. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Standard Error of Estimate
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Response-Cost System
Behavior Disorders
4. 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.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Proactive Interference
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Automaticity
5. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Decay
Character Education Programs
6. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Performance Grading Scales
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Token Economy
7. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Confidence Interval
Mental Retardation
Articulation Difficulties
Achievement Tests
8. 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).
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Community-Based Education Programs
Social Cognition
Preconventional Morality
9. Internalized self-talk.
Organization
Behavior Disorders
Transformation
Inner Speech
10. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Critical pedagogy
Epilepsy
Individual and Small-Group Activities
11. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Extensive Retardation
External Locus of Control
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Feedback Loop
12. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Planned Ignoring
Ability
Reading
13. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Cooing
Acronym
Respondent Behavior
Practical Intelligence
14. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Transfer of Information
Models (Instruction)
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
15. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Attribution Theory
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Constructivism
Automaticity
16. 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.
Object-Relations Theory
Law of Effect
Difficulty of the Task
Concept-Driven Models
17. 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
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Law of Effect
Sensory Register
Achievement Motivation
18. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Socioeconomic Status
At-Risk Students
Brainstorming
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
19. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Secondary Reinforcer
Summative Evaluation
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Maturation
20. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Direct Modeling
Triarchic Theory
21. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Keyword
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Absolute Grading Standards
22. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Behavior Disorders
Method of Loci
Moderate Retardation
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
23. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Educational Goals
Identity
Allocated Time
Token Economy
24. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Cultural Differences Theories
Perception
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Invincibility Fallacy
25. 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.
Phonemes
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Reciprocal Determinism
Instructional Theory
26. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Identity
Concept-Driven Models
Conservation
Educational Psychology
27. 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.
Transitivity
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Jigsaw II
Affective Objectives
28. 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.
Performance Grading Scales
Primary Reinforcer
Task Analysis
Severe and Profound Retardation
29. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Test-Retest Reliability
Code Emphasis Strategy
Development
Deficiency Needs
30. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Corporal Punishment
Mental Retardation
Task Analysis
Derived Score
31. 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.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Hyperactivity
Group Training Experiences
Direct instruction
32. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Validity
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Social Inferences
Attribution Theory
33. 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.
Z-Scores
Specific Learning Outcomes
Communication
Conservation
34. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Development
Norm-Referenced Testing
Models (Observational Learning)
Reciprocal Determinism
35. The use of physical punishment.
Corporal Punishment
Instructional Objectives
Exceptional Learners
Static Assessment Approach
36. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Data-Driven Models
Object-Relations Theory
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Construct Validity
37. 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
Self-Efficacy
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Pivotal Response Therapy
Character
38. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Receptive Language Disorders
Analytical Intelligence
Reversibility
Instruction
39. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Gender Identity
Extrinsic Motivation
Analogies
Response Set
40. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Anxiety Disorders
Articulation Difficulties
Allocated Time
Fluency Disorders
41. The total length of the class.
Morphemes
Scheduled Time
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Hearing Impairment
42. 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.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
43. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Normal Distribution
Internal Locus of Control
Morphemes
Carroll's Model of School Learning
44. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Babbling
General Exploratory Activities
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Steiner-Waldorf Education
45. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.
Tracking
Attention
Response Set
Mild Retardation
46. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Engaged Time
Psychometrics
Corporal Punishment
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
47. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Pervasive Retardation
Norm-Referenced Testing
Public Law 94-142
Severe and Profound Retardation
48. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Echoic Storage Register
Behavioral Theory
Two-Store Model
Intermittent Retardation
49. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Questioning Techniques
Active teaching
Behavioral Theory
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
50. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Response Set
Achievement Motivation
Expository Teaching
Extrinsic Motivation
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