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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Reinforcer
Pervasive Retardation
Norm-Referenced Testing
2. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Personal Fable
Response-Cost System
Conditioning
Schemata
3. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Accelerated Programs
General Exploratory Activities
Conventional Morality
4. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Gender Bias
Acronym
Inattention
Transitivity
5. The art of teaching. It encompasses different styles and methods of instructing.
Pedagogy
Attribution Theory
Direct Modeling
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
6. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Response Set
Difficulty of the Task
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
7. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
External Locus of Control
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Intrinsic Motivation
Keyword
8. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Academic Learning Time
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Means-Ends Analysis
Confidence Interval
9. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Vicarious Learning
Triarchic Theory
Character
Brainstorming
10. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Expressive Disorders
Social Learning and Expectancy
Direct instruction
11. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Reciprocal Determinism
Gender Identity
12. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Stability
Performance Grading Scales
Feedback Loop
13. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Epilepsy
Holophrastic Speech
Social Cognition
14. 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
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Transitivity
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Voice Disorders
15. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Predictive Validity
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Exhibition
Simple Moral Education Programs
16. 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.
Hyperactivity
Planned Ignoring
Impulsivity
Self-Efficacy
17. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Character
Symbolic Modeling
Mental Retardation
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
18. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Metacognition
Exhibition
Synthetic Intelligence
19. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Instructional Theory
Visual Impairment
Token Economy
Gender Bias
20. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Symbolic Modeling
Mastery Grading Scales
T-Scores
Shaping
21. Relating current information with previous learning.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Group Training Experiences
Severe and Profound Retardation
Analogies
22. 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.
Growth Needs
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Subschemata
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
23. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Data-Driven Models
attrition
Automaticity
Psychomotor Objectives
24. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Primary Reinforcer
Character Education Programs
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Receptive Language Disorders
25. 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
Percentile Scores
Intrinsic Motivation
Metacognition
Attribution Theory
26. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Social Inferences
Absolute Grading Standards
Operant Behavior
27. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Organization
Mental Retardation
Two-sigma problem
Expository Advance Organizers
28. 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.
Motivation
Foreclosure
Identity Achievement
Shaping
29. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Respondent Behavior
Morphemes
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Generative learning
30. 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.
Transitivity
Gender Bias
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Summative Evaluation
31. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Stability
Preconventional Morality
Community-Based Education Programs
Inner Speech
32. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Community-Based Education Programs
Test-Retest Reliability
Instruction
Voice Disorders
33. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Social Cognition
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Anxiety Disorders
Guided Discovery
34. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Teaching Efficacy
Stability
Learned Helplessness
Task Analysis
35. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Demonstrations
Behavioral Theory
Moderate Retardation
Instructional Theory
36. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Identity
Achievement Motivation
37. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Taxonomy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Internal Locus of Control
Metacognition
38. 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.
Contingency Contracting
Community-Based Education Programs
Proactive Interference
Automaticity
39. The study of how students learn and develop.
Time-Out
Educational Psychology
Achievement Tests
Test-Retest Reliability
40. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Internal Locus of Control
Psychomotor Objectives
Seriation
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
41. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Decay
Type-S Conditioning
Character
Response Set
42. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Behavioral Theory
Elaborative Encoding
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Pragmatics
43. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Extrinsic Motivation
Exceptional Learners
Generalized Reinforcer
Static Assessment Approach
44. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Contingency Contracting
Luck
Decay
Problem Solving
45. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Invincibility Fallacy
Keyword
Internal Locus of Control
46. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Self-Efficacy
Reliability
Descriptive Grading Scales
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
47. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Primary Reinforcer
Derived Score
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Elaborative Encoding
48. 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).
Organization
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Feedback Loop
Public Law 94-142
49. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Social Learning and Expectancy
Practical Intelligence
Rehearsal
50. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Heuristics
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Babbling
Working or Short-Term Memory