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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Schemata
Educational Goals
Growth Needs
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
2. 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 unstable and intrinsic to the student.
Babbling
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Effort
3. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Instructional Objectives
Analytical Intelligence
Guided Discovery
General Objectives
4. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Percentile Scores
Concept-Driven Models
Character
Advance Organizer
5. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Enrichment Programs
Intermittent Retardation
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Validity
6. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Acronym
Concept-Driven Models
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Brainstorming
7. 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
Reciprocal Teaching
Pivotal Response Therapy
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Long-Term Memory
8. 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
Mastery Learning
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Validity
9. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Identity Achievement
Learning Disabilities
Identity
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
10. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Norm Group
Language System
Proactive Interference
Moderate Retardation
11. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Withitness
Dyslexia
Acronym
External Locus of Control
12. How relevant a test is at face value.
Descriptive Statistics
Withitness
Face Validity
General Exploratory Activities
13. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Impulsivity
IDEAL Strategy
Law of Effect
Criterion-Related Validity
14. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Learning Disabilities
At-Risk Students
Learned Helplessness
Preconventional Morality
15. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Operant Behavior
Phonology
General (or High-Road) Transfer
16. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Time-Out
Response Set
Expository Teaching
Exceptional Learners
17. Relating current information with previous learning.
Analogies
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Direct instruction
Intrinsic Motivation
18. 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.
Heuristics
Portfolio
Seriation
Performance Grading Scales
19. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Severe and Profound Retardation
Fluency Disorders
Carroll's Model of School Learning
20. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Encoding
Pedagogy
Foreclosure
Elaborative Encoding
21. A theory which states that individuals create schemata (mental concepts and rules) based on the interaction between their experience and ideas. This theory is based on the ideas of Jean Piaget.
Norm Group
Achievement Tests
Exhibition
Constructivism
22. 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).
Conventional Morality
Attention
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Metacognition
23. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Self-Determination Theory
Derived Score
Pervasive Retardation
24. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Mastery Grading Scales
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Synthesized Modeling
Identity Achievement
25. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Character
Moderate Retardation
Exceptional Learners
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
26. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Contingency Contracting
Luck
Identity Achievement
Achievement Motivation
27. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Echoic Storage Register
Gender Role
Z-Scores
Self-Efficacy
28. 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.
Forgetting
Encoding
Feedback Loop
Class Inclusion
29. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Models (Observational Learning)
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Character
Iconic Storage Register
30. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Predictive Validity
Articulation Difficulties
Centration
Development
31. 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.
Content Validity
Decay
Criterion-Related Validity
Object-Relations Theory
32. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Human Needs Theory
Z-Scores
Language Experience Strategy
Triarchic Theory
33. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
Vicarious Learning
Holophrastic Speech
General Exploratory Activities
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
34. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Reading
Difficulty of the Task
Specific Learning Outcomes
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
35. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Transfer of Information
External Locus of Control
Fluency Disorders
Constructivism
36. 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
Derived Score
Self-Determination Theory
Comparative Advance Organizers
Working or Short-Term Memory
37. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Generalized Reinforcer
Respondent Behavior
Group Training Experiences
Cognitive Objectives
38. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Achievement Tests
Language System
Portfolio
Self-Regulation
39. 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.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Decay
At-Risk Students
Simple Moral Education Programs
40. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Reciprocal Teaching
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Communication
Percentile Scores
41. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Vicarious Learning
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Feedback Loop
Morphemes
42. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int
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43. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Seriation
Attribution Theory
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Cognitive Objectives
44. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Generative learning
Portfolio
Phonics Approach
Iconic Storage Register
45. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Z-Scores
Conventional Morality
Shaping
46. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Summative Evaluation
Z-Scores
Attention
47. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Engaged Time
Extensive Retardation
Stability
Severe and Profound Retardation
48. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Demonstrations
Static Assessment Approach
Portfolio
Extrinsic Motivation
49. A division of long-term memory for storing factual knowledge.
Standard Error of Estimate
Premack Principle
Episodic Memory
Semantic Memory
50. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Semantic Memory
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Engaged Time
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences