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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Acronym
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Invincibility Fallacy
Intermittent Retardation
2. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Character Education Programs
3. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Conventional Morality
Shaping
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Models (Instruction)
4. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Behavioral Theory
Code Emphasis Strategy
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Conditioning
5. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Intermittent Retardation
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Identity Achievement
Taxonomy
6. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Classification
Psychomotor Objectives
Aptitude Tests
Reciprocal Teaching
7. How relevant a test is at face value.
Retroactive Interference
Internalization
Face Validity
Anxiety Disorders
8. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Gender Bias
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Transformation
9. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Effort
Data-Driven Models
Ability
10. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Norm Group
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
IDEAL Strategy
Pragmatics
11. A kind of achievement test which combines several different subject areas into the same test.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Demonstrations
Proactive Interference
Achievement Test Battery
12. The ability to apply previous learning to new situations and problems. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Synthetic Intelligence
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Identity Diffusion
Two-sigma problem
13. 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.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Ability
Mild Retardation
Hyperactivity
14. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Criterion-Related Validity
Gender Identity
Semantic Memory
Acronym
15. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Teaching Efficacy
Secondary Reinforcer
Character Education Programs
Cultural Differences Theories
16. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Task Analysis
Demonstrations
Self-Regulation
17. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Gender Bias
Chunking
IDEAL Strategy
18. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Social Cognition
Validity
Comparative Advance Organizers
Generative learning
19. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Self-Determination Theory
Normal Distribution
Demonstrations
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
20. A learning strategy which involves grouping information into categories based on shared patterns - sequences - or characteristics.
Tracking
Accelerated Programs
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Clustering
21. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Vicarious Learning
Achievement Test Battery
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Law of Effect
22. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Affective Objectives
Face Validity
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Syntax
23. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Visual Impairment
Inclusion
Reading
24. Learning objectives relating to abstract concepts such as understanding or being able to apply knowledge to different situations. Gronlund proposed a instructional theory focusing on this kind of learning objective.
Iconic Storage Register
Functional Fixedness
General Objectives
Expected Outcomes
25. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (
Exhibition
Social Cognition
Comparative Advance Organizers
Postconventional Morality
26. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Procedural Memory
Instructional Theory
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Automaticity
27. 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
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Learned Helplessness
28. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Severe and Profound Retardation
Inattention
Time-Out
29. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.
Internalization
Direct Modeling
Identity Achievement
Communication
30. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a
Transfer of Information
Anxiety Disorders
Type-R Conditioning
Generative learning
31. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Limited Retardation
Operant Behavior
Long-Term Memory
Working or Short-Term Memory
32. 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.
Luck
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Learned Helplessness
Self-Determination Theory
33. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Token Economy
Absolute Grading Standards
Invincibility Fallacy
34. 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.
Community-Based Education Programs
Test-Retest Reliability
Advance Organizer
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
35. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Confidence Interval
Public Law 94-142
Pedagogy
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
36. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Attention
Mastery Learning
Questioning Techniques
Growth Needs
37. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Gender Bias
Fluency Disorders
Development
Growth Needs
38. The study of the meaning behind words.
Semantics
Reciprocal Teaching
Phonology
Social Learning and Expectancy
39. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Exhibition
Accelerated Programs
General Exploratory Activities
40. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Reciprocal Determinism
Organization
Expected Outcomes
Babbling
41. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Character Education Programs
Object-Relations Theory
Z-Scores
42. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Expressive Disorders
Reinforcer
Taxonomy
Guided Discovery
43. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Taxonomy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Dyslexia
Generalized Reinforcer
44. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Generative learning
IDEAL Strategy
Subschemata
Stability
45. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Subschemata
Long-Term Memory
Practical Intelligence
Pervasive Retardation
46. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Enrichment Programs
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Severe and Profound Retardation
Long-Term Memory
47. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Identity Diffusion
Reciprocal Determinism
Pervasive Retardation
Observational Learning
48. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Subschemata
Procedural Memory
External Locus of Control
49. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Semantics
Type-S Conditioning
Reliability
Decay
50. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Hearing Impairment
Automaticity
Observational Learning
Demonstrations