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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Moratorium
Group Training Experiences
Aptitude Tests
Token Economy
2. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Motivation
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Descriptive Statistics
Long-Term Memory
3. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Face Validity
Inclusion
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Impulsivity
4. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Percentile Scores
Self-Efficacy
Self-Determination Theory
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
5. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Ability
Moderate Retardation
Psychometrics
Phonemes
6. 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.
Practical Intelligence
Constructivism
Exceptional Learners
At-Risk Students
7. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Z-Scores
Echoic Storage Register
Observational Learning
Algorithm
8. 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 external to the student.
Planned Ignoring
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Difficulty of the Task
Static Assessment Approach
9. 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
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Gender Identity
Pivotal Response Therapy
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
10. 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.
Criterion-Related Validity
Maturation
Semantic Memory
Proactive Interference
11. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Moratorium
Secondary Reinforcer
Anxiety Disorders
Organization
12. 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.
Group Training Experiences
Conservation
Severe and Profound Retardation
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
13. Behaving like someone in a book or movie.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Response Set
Symbolic Modeling
14. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Standard Error of Estimate
Proactive Interference
Working-Backward Strategy
15. How relevant a test is at face value.
Law of Effect
Formative Evaluation
Accelerated Programs
Face Validity
16. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Gender Bias
Mild Retardation
Pragmatics
Analogies
17. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Type-R Conditioning
Communication
Achievement Test Battery
Expressive Disorders
18. 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).
Object-Relations Theory
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Public Law 94-142
Semantic Memory
19. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Extrinsic Motivation
Dyslexia
Group Consequences
20. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Extensive Retardation
Teaching Efficacy
General Objectives
Validity
21. 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.
Scheduled Time
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Ability
22. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Two-sigma problem
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Law of Effect
Two-Store Model
23. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Voice Disorders
Working-Backward Strategy
Guided Discovery
24. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Centration
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Transitivity
25. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Personal Fable
Problem Solving
26. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Concurrent Validity
Luck
Identity Achievement
Character
27. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Heuristics
Automaticity
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Summative Evaluation
28. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
External Locus of Control
Operant Behavior
Social Learning and Expectancy
Z-Scores
29. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Hyperactivity
Working-Backward Strategy
External Locus of Control
Articulation Difficulties
30. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Public Law 94-142
Responsibility
Law of Effect
Foreclosure
31. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Schemata
Behavioral Theory
Shaping
Descriptive Statistics
32. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Preconventional Morality
Expository Teaching
Triarchic Theory
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
33. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
External Locus of Control
Growth Needs
Mild Retardation
Fluency Disorders
34. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Luck
Mnemonic Devices
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Social Cognition
35. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Phonology
Questioning Techniques
Visual Impairment
Behavior Disorders
36. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Expository Teaching
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Language System
Percentile Scores
37. 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).
Language System
General Exploratory Activities
Severe and Profound Retardation
Preconventional Morality
38. 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.
Vicarious Learning
Summative Evaluation
Invincibility Fallacy
Practical Intelligence
39. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Self-Determination Theory
Inattention
Feedback Loop
Concurrent Validity
40. 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.
Decay
Luck
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Active teaching
41. The sensory register for visual information.
Procedural Memory
Iconic Storage Register
Method of Loci
Individual and Small-Group Activities
42. 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.
Subschemata
Hyperactivity
Data-Driven Models
Synthesized Modeling
43. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Sensory Register
Foreclosure
Subschemata
44. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Predictive Validity
Instructional Objectives
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Intrinsic Motivation
45. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Respondent Behavior
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Expected Outcomes
Expository Advance Organizers
46. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Rehearsal
Normal Distribution
Behavioral Theory
47. Bringing information out of long-term memory.
Academic Learning Time
Babbling
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Retrieval
48. 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.
Behavioral Theory
Summative Evaluation
Content Validity
Language System
49. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Guided Discovery
Operant Behavior
Type-S Conditioning
Automaticity
50. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Analogies
Receptive Language Disorders
Language Experience Strategy