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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Portfolio
Achievement Motivation
Synthesized Modeling
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
2. Those one observes.
Mastery Grading Scales
Models (Observational Learning)
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Tracking
3. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Ability
Working-Backward Strategy
Foreclosure
Two-Store Model
4. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.
Confidence Interval
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Gender Identity
Metacognition
5. Another name for operant conditioning - due to the importance of responses in determining whether learning has occured.
Law of Effect
Transformation
Type-R Conditioning
Gender Identity
6. How relevant a test is at face value.
Face Validity
Subschemata
Episodic Memory
Specific Learning Outcomes
7. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Instructional Theory
Difficulty of the Task
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Encoding
8. The process of transferring information from short-term to long-term memory by developing meaningful relationships and patterns in the data that relate to one's previous knowledge.
Encoding
Symbolic Modeling
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
9. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Episodic Memory
Semantic Memory
Identity Achievement
Long-Term Memory
10. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Attention
Concurrent Validity
Formative Evaluation
Real Self-Efficacy
11. 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
Direct instruction
Fluency Disorders
Conservation
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.
Summative Evaluation
Generative learning
Shaping
Language Experience Strategy
13. The study of the meaning behind words.
Semantics
Test Bias
Educational Goals
Direct instruction
14. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Elaborative Encoding
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Voice Disorders
Growth Needs
15. The ability to create new methods of dealing with everyday problems based on one's prior experiences and feedback from others. This is thought to be one of the types of intelligence on which creativity is based.
Guided Discovery
Gender Identity
Practical Intelligence
Character
16. Visual images - such as maps - tables - or graphs - which organize information and help consolidate concepts for the students.
At-Risk Students
Standard Error of Estimate
Gender Identity
Models (Instruction)
17. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Brainstorming
Static Assessment Approach
Symbolic Modeling
18. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Teaching Efficacy
Character
Impulsivity
Learned Helplessness
19. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Preconventional Morality
Educational Psychology
Instructional Theory
Instructional Objectives
20. A form of behavioral modification designed for autistic children. This treatment targets key parts of an individual's development - such as motivation or social responsiveness - in the hope that the treatment will spread to other behavioral areas as
Intermittent Retardation
Motivation
Pivotal Response Therapy
Generative learning
21. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Intrinsic Motivation
Stability
Morphemes
Assertive Discipline
22. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Enrichment Programs
Jigsaw II
Procedural Memory
23. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Organization
Secondary Reinforcer
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Dual Coding Hypothesis
24. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Static Assessment Approach
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Articulation Difficulties
Mastery Learning
25. 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
Triarchic Theory
Assertive Discipline
Encoding
Attribution Theory
26. The sensory register for visual information.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Iconic Storage Register
T-Scores
Educational Psychology
27. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Forgetting
Receptive Language Disorders
Confidence Interval
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
28. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Acronym
Internal Locus of Control
Visual Impairment
Algorithm
29. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Shaping
Observational Learning
Cultural Differences Theories
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
30. An approach to teaching reading that encourages children to monitor their own reading comprehension. After reading - students will summarize in their own words what they just read - ask questions about the text to find the main points - clarify anyth
Limited Retardation
Reciprocal Teaching
Deficiency Needs
Self-Efficacy
31. 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.
Summative Evaluation
Difficulty of the Task
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Gender Identity
32. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Norm-Referenced Testing
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Academic Learning Time
33. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Test-Retest Reliability
Gender Identity
Procedural Memory
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
34. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Means-Ends Analysis
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Working or Short-Term Memory
Concept-Driven Models
35. 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.
Hearing Impairment
Cultural Differences Theories
Impulsivity
Allocated Time
36. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are survival (food - water - warmth) - safety (freedom from danger) - belonging (acceptance from others) - and self-esteem (approval from others).
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Identity Achievement
Deficiency Needs
Confidence Interval
37. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Transfer of Information
Language Experience Strategy
Predictive Validity
Moratorium
38. The total length of the class.
Instructional Objectives
Scheduled Time
Validity
Object-Relations Theory
39. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Means-Ends Analysis
Expository Advance Organizers
Internal Locus of Control
40. Thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem.
Brainstorming
Specific Learning Outcomes
Subschemata
Self-Determination Theory
41. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Schemata
Voice Disorders
Stability
Teaching Efficacy
42. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Achievement Test Battery
Acronym
Automaticity
Severe and Profound Retardation
43. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.
Operant Behavior
Advance Organizer
Human Needs Theory
Personal Fable
44. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Centration
Guided Discovery
Descriptive Statistics
Advance Organizer
45. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Character Education Programs
Functional Fixedness
Reciprocal Teaching
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
46. The amount of class time devoted to teaching.
Synthesized Modeling
Iconic Storage Register
Semantics
Allocated Time
47. The act of assigning meaning to information by interpreting it based on what one already knows.
Observational Learning
Perception
General Objectives
Time-Out
48. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Portfolio
Normal Distribution
At-Risk Students
attrition
49. 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 (
Intrinsic Motivation
Chunking
Transformation
Postconventional Morality
50. Testing strategies which have students create long-term projects to determine how much they have learned.
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Hearing Impairment
Educational Goals
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