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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.
Response Set
Norm-Referenced Testing
Reading
Expressive Disorders
2. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Psychomotor Objectives
Metacognition
Absolute Grading Standards
Decay
3. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Growth Needs
Community-Based Education Programs
Corporal Punishment
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
4. 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).
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Vicarious Learning
Conventional Morality
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
5. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Demonstrations
Object-Relations Theory
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Achievement Test Battery
6. 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 -
Learned Helplessness
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Inclusion
Extensive Retardation
7. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.
Withitness
Deficiency Needs
Intermittent Retardation
Exceptional Learners
8. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Cognitive Objectives
Data-Driven Models
Z-Scores
Dynamic Assessment Approach
9. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Validity
Human Needs Theory
Metacognition
Dual Coding Hypothesis
10. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Brainstorming
Organization
Student Team Achievement Decisions
11. 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.
Phonics Approach
Triarchic Theory
Social Learning and Expectancy
Reciprocal Teaching
12. 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.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Seriation
Difficulty of the Task
13. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Mastery Learning
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
attrition
Impulsivity
14. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Enrichment Programs
Guided Discovery
Epilepsy
Sensory Register
15. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.
Generalized Reinforcer
Socioeconomic Status
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Allocated Time
16. 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).
Type-S Conditioning
Growth Needs
Dyslexia
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
17. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Exceptional Learners
Achievement Test Battery
Retroactive Interference
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
18. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
attrition
Secondary Reinforcer
19. Internalized self-talk.
Automaticity
Inner Speech
Cognitive Objectives
Limited Retardation
20. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Semantic Memory
Respondent Behavior
T-Scores
Summative Evaluation
21. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Psychometrics
Self-Efficacy
Method of Loci
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
22. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Intrinsic Motivation
Guided Discovery
Concurrent Validity
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
23. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Conservation
Community-Based Education Programs
Intrinsic Motivation
Concept-Driven Models
24. 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.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Data-Driven Models
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Percentile Scores
25. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Exhibition
Episodic Memory
Functional Fixedness
Gender Role
26. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Self-Efficacy
Metacognition
Subschemata
Operant Behavior
27. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher will purposely ignore any disruptive behavior by a student to try to eradicate the behavior.
Planned Ignoring
Socioeconomic Status
Cultural Deficit Theories
Performance-Based Test Strategies
28. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Object-Relations Theory
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Proactive Interference
Two-Store Model
29. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Symbolic Modeling
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Tracking
Contingency Contracting
30. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Expressive Disorders
Concurrent Validity
Scheduled Time
Clustering
31. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
Normal Distribution
Proactive Interference
Communication
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
32. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Conservation
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Concept-Driven Models
Synthetic Intelligence
33. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Learned Helplessness
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Intrinsic Motivation
Phonics Approach
34. 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
Symbolic Modeling
Metacognition
Visual Impairment
35. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Public Law 94-142
Task Analysis
Synthetic Intelligence
Pragmatics
36. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Group Consequences
Achievement Tests
Time-Out
37. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Working or Short-Term Memory
Deficiency Needs
Heuristics
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
38. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Brainstorming
Advance Organizer
General Exploratory Activities
Behavioral Theory
39. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Transformation
Aptitude Tests
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Gifted and Talented Children
40. The application of knowledge - skills - and experience to achieving a particular goal.
Portfolio
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Decay
Problem Solving
41. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Generalized Reinforcer
Predictive Validity
Self-Efficacy
Questioning Techniques
42. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Visual Impairment
Assertive Discipline
Affective Objectives
Teaching Efficacy
43. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mild Retardation
Feedback Loop
Critical pedagogy
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
44. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Self-Efficacy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Feedback Loop
45. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Intermittent Retardation
Method of Loci
Character Education Programs
46. 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
Attribution Theory
Psychomotor Objectives
Mental Retardation
Transfer of Information
47. 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
Response Set
Shaping
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
48. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Achievement Test Battery
Psychomotor Objectives
General Objectives
Socioeconomic Status
49. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Summative Evaluation
Forgetting
Questioning Techniques
50. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Intermittent Retardation
Motivation
Mastery Grading Scales
Socioeconomic Status