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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Engaged Time
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Growth Needs
2. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Phonology
Long-Term Memory
Maturation
3. 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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4. A system designed to aid communication. These systems are characteristically organized (have grammar rules for word order) - productive (words can be combined in an almost infinite number of arrangements) - arbitrary (not necessarily a relationship b
Impulsivity
Long-Term Memory
Language System
Means-Ends Analysis
5. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Metacognition
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Vicarious Learning
Social Learning and Expectancy
6. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Long-Term Memory
Extensive Retardation
Organization
Identity Achievement
7. 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.
Mental Retardation
Taxonomy
Transfer of Information
Exceptional Learners
8. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Expository Advance Organizers
At-Risk Students
Corporal Punishment
9. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Derived Score
Long-Term Memory
Subschemata
Descriptive Statistics
10. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Severe and Profound Retardation
Concept-Driven Models
Critical pedagogy
11. 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
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Postconventional Morality
Percentile Scores
12. 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.
Content Validity
Limited Retardation
Shaping
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
13. The ability to see useful relationships between different ideas or aspects of a problem. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Constructivism
Analytical Intelligence
Comparative Advance Organizers
Transfer of Information
14. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Secondary Reinforcer
Intermittent Retardation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Elaboration
15. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Generalized Reinforcer
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Inner Speech
Heuristics
16. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Type-S Conditioning
Problem Solving
17. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Cooperative Learning
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Iconic Storage Register
18. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.
Preconventional Morality
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Gender Role
Anxiety Disorders
19. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Expository Advance Organizers
Expected Outcomes
Maturation
Extrinsic Motivation
20. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Cultural Differences Theories
Inattention
21. The inability to retrieve learned information.
Forgetting
Performance Grading Scales
Expressive Disorders
Public Law 94-142
22. The way that previously learned information affects how one learns new concepts. This can be either positive (helping one understand new ideas) or negative (hindering one from taking in the new information).
Planned Ignoring
Transfer of Information
Extensive Retardation
Construct Validity
23. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Models (Instruction)
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Specific Learning Outcomes
Secondary Reinforcer
24. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Extrinsic Motivation
Perception
Syntax
25. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Premack Principle
Iconic Storage Register
Luck
Retroactive Interference
26. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Metacognition
Severe and Profound Retardation
Triarchic Theory
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
27. Bilingual education programs which teach students both in their native tongue and English - allowing them to maintain their bilingualism.
Responsibility
Construct Validity
Engaged Time
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
28. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Semantics
Cooing
Limited Retardation
29. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Development
Cultural Deficit Theories
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Achievement Tests
30. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Operant Behavior
Communication
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
31. A mnemonic device where one will isolate part of a word - create a mental image of the keyword - and use that image to remember the meaning of the word.
Tracking
Shaping
Conservation
Keyword
32. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Character Education Programs
Automaticity
Absolute Grading Standards
33. 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
Exceptional Learners
Pragmatics
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
34. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Transitivity
Brainstorming
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Generalized Reinforcer
35. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Two-sigma problem
Difficulty of the Task
Gender Bias
Luck
36. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Engaged Time
Vicarious Learning
Classification
37. Behavioral modification based on behavioral learning theory.
Demonstrations
Ability
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
38. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Community-Based Education Programs
Behavioral Theory
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Mental Retardation
39. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
Reciprocal Teaching
Impulsivity
Transfer of Information
Primary Reinforcer
40. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Cultural Differences Theories
Static Assessment Approach
Achievement Motivation
Mnemonic Devices
41. 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.
Subschemata
Severe and Profound Retardation
Cultural Differences Theories
Impulsivity
42. Relating current information with previous learning.
Achievement Tests
Generalized Reinforcer
Analogies
Babbling
43. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Token Economy
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Reciprocal Determinism
Confidence Interval
44. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Real Self-Efficacy
Analogies
Receptive Language Disorders
Learned Helplessness
45. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Direct instruction
Transfer of Information
Law of Effect
attrition
46. 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
Character
Expository Advance Organizers
Feedback Loop
Two-Store Model
47. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
Responsibility
Syntax
Method of Loci
Retrieval
48. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Direct instruction
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
49. 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.
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Encoding
Taxonomy
Organization
50. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Algorithm
Specific Learning Outcomes