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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Extrinsic Motivation
2. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Test-Retest Reliability
Morphemes
Whole Language Approach
Chunking
3. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Development
Secondary Reinforcer
Perceived Self-Efficacy
At-Risk Students
4. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Language System
Two-Store Model
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Preconventional Morality
5. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Elaboration
Proactive Interference
Cooing
Standard Error of Estimate
6. 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.
attrition
Preconventional Morality
Absolute Grading Standards
Object-Relations Theory
7. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Practical Intelligence
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Allocated Time
Socioeconomic Status
8. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Learned Helplessness
Test Bias
Corporal Punishment
Method of Loci
9. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Identity Achievement
Educational Goals
10. 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.
Synthesized Modeling
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Mental Retardation
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
11. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.
Articulation Difficulties
Epilepsy
Critical pedagogy
General Objectives
12. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Models (Instruction)
Moratorium
Communication
Fluency Disorders
13. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Standard Error of Estimate
Active teaching
Models (Instruction)
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
14. Academic programs designed to enable students to learn independently more about their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Difficulty of the Task
External Locus of Control
Withitness
15. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Subschemata
Concept-Driven Models
Transitional Bilingual Programs
16. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Human Needs Theory
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
17. 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.
Anxiety Disorders
Echoic Storage Register
Sensory Register
Ability
18. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Achievement Tests
Synthesized Modeling
Reciprocal Determinism
Self-Efficacy
19. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Class Inclusion
Iconic Storage Register
Character Education Programs
Engaged Time
20. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Iconic Storage Register
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Hearing Impairment
Cooperative Learning
21. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Secondary Reinforcer
Classification
Metacognition
Accelerated Programs
22. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
General Objectives
Direct instruction
Mastery Grading Scales
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
23. 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.
Babbling
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Summative Evaluation
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
24. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
Group Consequences
Contingency Contracting
Heuristics
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
25. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Syntax
Standard Error of Estimate
Means-Ends Analysis
T-Scores
26. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Descriptive Statistics
Aptitude Tests
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Portfolio
27. A teaching method developed by Feuerstein where the teacher will intervene between the student and the learning task. In this method - the teacher will help the student make inferences about the world based on different experiences. This can be done
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Confidence Interval
Learning Disability
Retroactive Interference
28. A neurological disorder characterized by seizures. This disorder is caused by excessive - abnormal brain activity.
Seriation
Mental Retardation
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Epilepsy
29. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Premack Principle
Fluency Disorders
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Achievement Test Battery
30. 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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31. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Psychometrics
Norm-Referenced Testing
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Inattention
32. A step-by-step procedure to solve a problem.
Algorithm
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Dual Coding Hypothesis
33. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Accelerated Programs
Schemata
Two-sigma problem
Working or Short-Term Memory
34. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Symbolic Modeling
Perception
Two-sigma problem
Maturation
35. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Direct Modeling
Assertive Discipline
Mental Retardation
Cooing
36. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Learning Disabilities
External Locus of Control
37. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Analogies
Social Inferences
Working-Backward Strategy
Gender Bias
38. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Social Inferences
Corporal Punishment
39. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Questioning Techniques
Moderate Retardation
Personal Fable
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
40. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Percentile Scores
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Rehearsal
41. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Impulsivity
Analytical Intelligence
Transformation
42. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Direct Modeling
Group Consequences
Procedural Memory
Identity
43. 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
Fluency Disorders
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
44. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Concurrent Validity
Mastery Learning
Premack Principle
Taxonomy
45. 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
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Attribution Theory
Personal Fable
Triarchic Theory
46. 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.
Time-Out
Generative learning
Demonstrations
Data-Driven Models
47. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Maturation
Transformation
48. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Formative Evaluation
Decay
Cooing
Pervasive Retardation
49. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Conservation
Gender Role
Babbling
50. Those one observes.
Assertive Discipline
Articulation Difficulties
Percentile Scores
Models (Observational Learning)