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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Self-Regulation
Absolute Grading Standards
Mental Retardation
Effort
2. Memory tools that enhance one's recall by relating information to knowledge with which it has no natural resemblance.
Class Inclusion
Achievement Tests
Mnemonic Devices
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
3. 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.
Token Economy
Class Inclusion
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Socioeconomic Status
4. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.
Derived Score
Chunking
Confidence Interval
Pragmatics
5. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Mild Retardation
Moderate Retardation
Fluency Disorders
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
6. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Public Law 94-142
Normal Distribution
Educational Psychology
Classification
7. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Scheduled Time
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Identity Achievement
Constructivism
8. The sensory register for visual information.
Corporal Punishment
General Exploratory Activities
Iconic Storage Register
Conservation
9. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Norm Group
Token Economy
Conditioning
10. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Psychometrics
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Enrichment Programs
11. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Tracking
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Functional Fixedness
Pivotal Response Therapy
12. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Difficulty of the Task
Critical pedagogy
Inner Speech
Impulsivity
13. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Social Inferences
Mastery Grading Scales
Personal Fable
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
14. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
General Objectives
Task Analysis
Responsibility
Behavioral Theory
15. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Validity
Gender Role
Heuristics
Educational Goals
16. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Foreclosure
Semantics
Retroactive Interference
Validity
17. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Inclusion
Symbolic Modeling
Identity
External Locus of Control
18. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Summative Evaluation
Behavior Disorders
Premack Principle
Affective Objectives
19. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Carroll's Model of School Learning
20. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Maturation
Exhibition
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Operant Behavior
21. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Transformation
Attention
Learning Disabilities
Foreclosure
22. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Tracking
Task Analysis
Elaborative Encoding
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
23. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Encoding
Tracking
Questioning Techniques
Norm-Referenced Testing
24. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Method of Loci
Withitness
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Expected Outcomes
25. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.
Method of Loci
Response Set
Hearing Impairment
Mental Retardation
26. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Perception
Holophrastic Speech
Gender Identity
Episodic Memory
27. 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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28. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Task Analysis
Practical Intelligence
Semantics
Means-Ends Analysis
29. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Law of Effect
Identity Achievement
Community-Based Education Programs
Models (Instruction)
30. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Intermittent Retardation
Self-Regulation
Stability
Taxonomy
31. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Standard Error of Estimate
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
32. Taxonomies describing physical abilities and skills the student should master.
Portfolio
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Psychomotor Objectives
33. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Token Economy
Direct instruction
Limited Retardation
34. A form of behavior modification using operant conditioning principles. Every time the patient displays the desired behavior - he is awarded a token (such as a star or a coin) that can be traded for a physical possession or special privilege.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Perception
Token Economy
Gender Identity
35. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Analytical Intelligence
Moderate Retardation
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Forgetting
36. The proper arrangement of words in a sentence.
Syntax
Group Training Experiences
Class Inclusion
Descriptive Grading Scales
37. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mild Retardation
Transformation
Confidence Interval
Expository Advance Organizers
38. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Inclusion
Conditioning
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
39. 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
Object-Relations Theory
Mild Retardation
Working or Short-Term Memory
Instructional Objectives
40. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Cognitive Objectives
Means-Ends Analysis
Gender Role
41. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Transfer of Information
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
42. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
External Locus of Control
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Method of Loci
Moderate Retardation
43. 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 external to the student.
Extrinsic Motivation
Luck
Tracking
Operant Behavior
44. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Advance Organizer
Public Law 94-142
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Clustering
45. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Comparative Advance Organizers
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Class Inclusion
Questioning Techniques
46. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Method of Loci
Achievement Test Battery
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Exhibition
47. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Visual Impairment
Achievement Tests
Accelerated Programs
Questioning Techniques
48. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Voice Disorders
Two-sigma problem
Reciprocal Determinism
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
49. How capable one actually is.
Episodic Memory
Real Self-Efficacy
Conventional Morality
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
50. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Standard Error of Estimate
Phonology
Confidence Interval
Dyslexia