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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.
Encoding
Respondent Behavior
Invincibility Fallacy
Models (Instruction)
2. How relevant a test is at face value.
Voice Disorders
Concept-Driven Models
Face Validity
Holophrastic Speech
3. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Demonstrations
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Advance Organizer
4. 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.
Hyperactivity
Identity Achievement
Group Consequences
Receptive Language Disorders
5. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Character Education Programs
Demonstrations
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Phonemes
6. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Advance Organizer
Analytical Intelligence
Group Training Experiences
Secondary Reinforcer
7. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Mastery Learning
Motivation
Portfolio
Premack Principle
8. The process of putting together different sounds in a meaningful way.
Phonology
Reciprocal Teaching
Problem Solving
Gifted and Talented Children
9. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Affective Objectives
Law of Effect
Fluency Disorders
Tracking
10. 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.
Self-Determination Theory
Operant Behavior
Vicarious Learning
Invincibility Fallacy
11. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Cooing
Psychomotor Objectives
Problem Solving
12. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Intrinsic Motivation
Conservation
External Locus of Control
Premack Principle
13. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Scheduled Time
Achievement Motivation
Object-Relations Theory
Chunking
14. 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.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Triarchic Theory
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
15. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Engaged Time
Visual Impairment
Inclusion
Receptive Language Disorders
16. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Vicarious Learning
Acronym
Data-Driven Models
Schemata
17. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expository Advance Organizers
Comparative Advance Organizers
Achievement Test Battery
Corporal Punishment
18. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Tracking
Luck
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Clustering
19. A type of character education where an instructor discusses moral questions with students. This type of program has limited success.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Simple Moral Education Programs
Ability
Expressive Disorders
20. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include only the sounds found in his or her native language.
Validity
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Brainstorming
Babbling
21. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Synthetic Intelligence
Test-Retest Reliability
Seriation
Steiner-Waldorf Education
22. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Construct Validity
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Character Education Programs
Normal Distribution
23. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Gender Bias
Phonemes
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Transformation
24. 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.
Working-Backward Strategy
Constructivism
Self-Regulation
IDEAL Strategy
25. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Contingency Contracting
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Expected Outcomes
Real Self-Efficacy
26. A model of memory that includes three interacting components (sensory register - working memory - and long-term memory) that together process external information. Although there are three parts - only two of them (working and long-term) are used for
Internalization
Human Needs Theory
Simple Moral Education Programs
Two-Store Model
27. A level of moral reasoning guided by strict adherence to rules - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 3 (conformity to one's group) and stage 4 (following rules because they promote social order).
Intermittent Retardation
Anxiety Disorders
Conventional Morality
Semantics
28. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who act without thinking - drift quickly from activity to the next - and perform dangerous behaviors without regarding their consequences.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Impulsivity
Generalized Reinforcer
Social Inferences
29. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Intrinsic Motivation
Elaborative Encoding
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Type-R Conditioning
30. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
Analogies
Synthetic Intelligence
Internal Locus of Control
31. A type of cooperative learning where the teacher will teach the students a skill - divide them into teams - and allow each team to practice the skill until all teams understand it perfectly.
Social Learning and Expectancy
Gender Identity
Type-R Conditioning
Student Team Achievement Decisions
32. Anything which increases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.
Self-Efficacy
Reinforcer
Working or Short-Term Memory
Semantics
33. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Face Validity
Active teaching
attrition
Type-R Conditioning
34. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Test-Retest Reliability
Predictive Validity
Validity
35. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Concept-Driven Models
Tracking
Extrinsic Motivation
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
36. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Static Assessment Approach
Absolute Grading Standards
Brainstorming
Growth Needs
37. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Analogies
Transformation
Cultural Differences Theories
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
38. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Analogies
Proactive Interference
Moderate Retardation
Voice Disorders
39. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Postconventional Morality
Scheduled Time
Code Emphasis Strategy
Extensive Retardation
40. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Elaborative Encoding
Psychometrics
Derived Score
Pragmatics
41. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Content Validity
Instructional Theory
Academic Learning Time
Intermittent Retardation
42. 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
Procedural Memory
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Generative learning
43. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Effort
Syntax
Self-Efficacy
44. 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).
Social Cognition
Public Law 94-142
Guided Discovery
Transformation
45. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Chunking
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Percentile Scores
Jigsaw II
46. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Character Education Programs
Advance Organizer
Metacognition
Taxonomy
47. A theory proposed by Reuven Feuerstein which describes the ability of humans to modify their cognitive process to adapt to different situations in their environment.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Planned Ignoring
Observational Learning
48. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Identity Achievement
Phonics Approach
Type-R Conditioning
Real Self-Efficacy
49. How capable one actually is.
Class Inclusion
Real Self-Efficacy
Direct Modeling
Identity Diffusion
50. The results one expects from different behaviors.
Heuristics
Expected Outcomes
Postconventional Morality
Episodic Memory