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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Academic Learning Time
Impulsivity
Symbolic Modeling
Extensive Retardation
2. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Identity
Formative Evaluation
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Semantic Memory
3. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Transfer of Information
Synthetic Intelligence
Shaping
4. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Method of Loci
Assertive Discipline
Reciprocal Determinism
Allocated Time
5. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Mental Retardation
Identity Diffusion
Retrieval
Attribution Theory
6. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Deficiency Needs
Working-Backward Strategy
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Respondent Behavior
7. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Triarchic Theory
Feedback Loop
Identity Diffusion
Cultural Deficit Theories
8. 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
Holophrastic Speech
Internalization
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Working or Short-Term Memory
9. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Criterion-Related Validity
Internalization
Conventional Morality
Expected Outcomes
10. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Scheduled Time
T-Scores
11. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Psychomotor Objectives
Clustering
Demonstrations
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
12. 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).
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Normal Distribution
Preconventional Morality
Visual Impairment
13. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Conditioning
Receptive Language Disorders
Pervasive Retardation
Social Inferences
14. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Z-Scores
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Effort
Analogies
15. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Episodic Memory
Behavioral Theory
Heuristics
Two-sigma problem
16. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Predictive Validity
Operant Behavior
Human Needs Theory
Summative Evaluation
17. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Hearing Impairment
Gender Bias
Object-Relations Theory
18. 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
Keyword
Subschemata
Comparative Advance Organizers
Attribution Theory
19. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Norm Group
Absolute Grading Standards
Sensory Register
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
20. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Test-Retest Reliability
Exceptional Learners
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Assertive Discipline
21. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Type-S Conditioning
Impulsivity
Achievement Motivation
Internal Locus of Control
22. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Growth Needs
Reinforcer
Response-Cost System
Planned Ignoring
23. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Human Needs Theory
Self-Determination Theory
Reinforcer
24. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Retrieval
Internal Locus of Control
Semantics
Learning Disability
25. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Moderate Retardation
Inattention
Inner Speech
Organization
26. 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.
Impulsivity
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Pragmatics
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.
Identity
attrition
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Vicarious Learning
28. 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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29. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Functional Fixedness
Articulation Difficulties
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
30. 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.
Direct instruction
Synthetic Intelligence
Synthesized Modeling
Rehearsal
31. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Conservation
Practical Intelligence
Hyperactivity
Perceived Self-Efficacy
32. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Voice Disorders
Group Training Experiences
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Achievement Motivation
33. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Semantic Memory
Means-Ends Analysis
Models (Observational Learning)
Chunking
34. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Contingency Contracting
Self-Determination Theory
Descriptive Statistics
Conservation
35. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Accelerated Programs
Inattention
Primary Reinforcer
Confidence Interval
36. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Character
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Identity Diffusion
Conservation
37. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Achievement Test Battery
Content Validity
Intermittent Retardation
Metacognition
38. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Internal Locus of Control
Tracking
Phonology
Models (Observational Learning)
39. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Difficulty of the Task
Psychometrics
Episodic Memory
Assertive Discipline
40. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
Transitivity
Deficiency Needs
Analogies
Identity Achievement
41. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Expository Teaching
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
42. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Jigsaw II
Growth Needs
Formative Evaluation
Behavioral Theory
43. 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.
Observational Learning
Mild Retardation
Summative Evaluation
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
44. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Articulation Difficulties
Retroactive Interference
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
45. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expository Advance Organizers
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Pervasive Retardation
Standard Error of Estimate
46. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Perception
Task Analysis
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Conditioning
47. The ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget - preoperational children lack this skill.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Reversibility
Syntax
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
48. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Social Inferences
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Reciprocal Teaching
49. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Transitivity
Type-R Conditioning
Echoic Storage Register
Symbolic Modeling
50. 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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