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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Class Inclusion
Clustering
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
2. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Questioning Techniques
Observational Learning
Concept-Driven Models
Voice Disorders
3. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Social Inferences
Operant Behavior
Teaching Efficacy
4. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Assertive Discipline
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Group Training Experiences
5. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Epilepsy
Construct Validity
Specific Learning Outcomes
Impulsivity
6. 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.
Percentile Scores
Advance Organizer
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Data-Driven Models
7. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Phonology
Fluency Disorders
Mild Retardation
8. 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).
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Cultural Differences Theories
Synthetic Intelligence
Public Law 94-142
9. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Vicarious Learning
Primary Reinforcer
Expository Teaching
External Locus of Control
10. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Proactive Interference
Assertive Discipline
Secondary Reinforcer
Personal Fable
11. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Communication
Socioeconomic Status
12. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Analogies
Derived Score
13. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Morphemes
Performance Grading Scales
Intrinsic Motivation
Vicarious Learning
14. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Attention
Working or Short-Term Memory
Type-R Conditioning
15. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Dyslexia
Guided Discovery
Transformation
Norm Group
16. 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
Acronym
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Mnemonic Devices
17. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Advance Organizer
Affective Objectives
Subschemata
Gender Bias
18. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Gender Role
Working-Backward Strategy
Invincibility Fallacy
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
19. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Self-Determination Theory
Synthesized Modeling
Response-Cost System
Guided Discovery
20. 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.
Token Economy
Questioning Techniques
Growth Needs
Cognitive Objectives
21. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Models (Observational Learning)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Feedback Loop
Observational Learning
22. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Face Validity
Stability
Expository Advance Organizers
Behavioral Theory
23. Academic programs where students are taught basic information and then allowed to progress at their own pace. This type of program is used for gifted children.
Mental Retardation
Accelerated Programs
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Performance Grading Scales
24. The use of physical punishment.
Cooing
Corporal Punishment
Pedagogy
Instructional Theory
25. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Exceptional Learners
Impulsivity
Contingency Contracting
Chunking
26. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
Organization
Constructivism
Absolute Grading Standards
Models (Instruction)
27. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Learning Disability
Inner Speech
Growth Needs
28. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Hyperactivity
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Scheduled Time
29. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Percentile Scores
Mild Retardation
Problem Solving
Dyslexia
30. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Brainstorming
Achievement Tests
Attribution Theory
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
31. A group of non-progressive motor problems which cause psychical disability. These disorders are caused by injuries to the motor control centers in the brain during birth or early childhood.
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Observational Learning
32. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Scheduled Time
Development
33. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Reliability
Academic Learning Time
Learned Helplessness
Elaboration
34. One's self-perception of his or her gender.
Gender Identity
Long-Term Memory
Difficulty of the Task
Episodic Memory
35. The study of classification. In teaching - systems of this type provide a hierarchical scheme of different learning objectives which helps the teacher include all of the skills and concepts needed for mastery of a topic.
Operant Behavior
Taxonomy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Exhibition
36. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Reversibility
Identity
Content Validity
37. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Visual Impairment
Epilepsy
Gifted and Talented Children
Code Emphasis Strategy
38. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Affective Objectives
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
39. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Expected Outcomes
Visual Impairment
Achievement Tests
Time-Out
40. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.
Moratorium
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Generative learning
Language System
41. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Conditioning
Cultural Differences Theories
Centration
Class Inclusion
42. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Character
Token Economy
Teaching Efficacy
43. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Identity Diffusion
Receptive Language Disorders
Psychomotor Objectives
Academic Learning Time
44. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Expository Advance Organizers
Visual Impairment
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Test-Retest Reliability
45. A taxonomy created by Bloom. According to this model - there are six levels of mastery of a concept. The student must reach the levels in specific order; higher level skills cannot be mastered without the lower levels. The levels are knowledge (simpl
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46. The process of learned information simply fading from memory.
Achievement Motivation
Achievement Test Battery
Jigsaw II
Decay
47. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Demonstrations
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Type-R Conditioning
Development
48. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Aptitude Tests
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Shaping
Cooperative Learning
49. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Achievement Tests
Summative Evaluation
Generative learning
50. The total length of the class.
Gender Identity
Luck
Scheduled Time
Decay