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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Gender Identity
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Extensive Retardation
2. 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.
Analytical Intelligence
Observational Learning
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
General Objectives
3. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Z-Scores
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Concurrent Validity
Phonemes
4. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Jigsaw II
Standard Error of Estimate
Episodic Memory
Summative Evaluation
5. 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.
Mild Retardation
Personal Fable
Mental Retardation
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
6. The idea that concrete ideas can be remembered better than abstract ones because concrete words are stored as both visual and verbal information.
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Educational Goals
Socioeconomic Status
Exceptional Learners
7. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Vicarious Learning
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Enrichment Programs
8. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.
Test-Retest Reliability
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Group Consequences
Metacognition
9. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Cultural Differences Theories
Clustering
Transformation
10. The inability to see a use for an object other than that to which one is accustomed.
Functional Fixedness
Identity Achievement
Class Inclusion
Vicarious Learning
11. 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
Constructivism
Planned Ignoring
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Self-Efficacy
12. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
General Exploratory Activities
Expository Teaching
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Chunking
13. 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.
Foreclosure
Norm-Referenced Testing
Time-Out
Comparative Advance Organizers
14. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Semantic Memory
Jigsaw II
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
attrition
15. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Rehearsal
Withitness
Decay
16. A form of teaching where the teacher will act as a guide as the students actively discover underlying patterns - solve problems - and form general rules from data.
Reinforcer
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Reading
Observational Learning
17. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Engaged Time
Deficiency Needs
Generalized Reinforcer
18. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Character Education Programs
Learning Disability
Critical pedagogy
Class Inclusion
19. 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.
Means-Ends Analysis
Heuristics
Synthetic Intelligence
Analytical Intelligence
20. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
Constructivism
Gender Bias
Elaborative Encoding
21. 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
Ability
Means-Ends Analysis
Classification
22. The sensory register for visual information.
Data-Driven Models
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Engaged Time
Iconic Storage Register
23. A teaching procedure that allows the teacher to test the student's reasoning ability and cognitive functions. Instead of focusing on quantifiable answers - this method aims at improving the student's problem-solving skills.
Data-Driven Models
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
T-Scores
Cultural Deficit Theories
24. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Achievement Test Battery
Social Inferences
Phonemes
25. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Stability
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Effort
26. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Feedback Loop
Organization
Elaborative Encoding
Norm Group
27. 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.
Ability
Educational Psychology
Instructional Objectives
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
28. 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.
Analytical Intelligence
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Primary Reinforcer
Taxonomy
29. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Models (Instruction)
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Achievement Motivation
Pragmatics
30. 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
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Behavioral Theory
Working-Backward Strategy
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
31. 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
Two-Store Model
Articulation Difficulties
Retroactive Interference
Law of Effect
32. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Episodic Memory
Behavioral Theory
Jigsaw II
Centration
33. Relating current information with previous learning.
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Moderate Retardation
Analogies
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
34. 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.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Accelerated Programs
Retroactive Interference
Direct Modeling
35. 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.
Behavior Disorders
T-Scores
Constructivism
Tracking
36. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which relies on the student's experiences and language ability. The student will dictate a story to an adult - who will write it down and then have the child read the dictated story.
Centration
Language Experience Strategy
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Content Validity
37. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Retroactive Interference
Self-Efficacy
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Reading
38. The act of creating one's own standards of behavior based on observations of others. The best performance standards are those which are moderately difficult.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Predictive Validity
Self-Regulation
Task Analysis
39. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Episodic Memory
At-Risk Students
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Phonics Approach
40. 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.
Encoding
Keyword
Classification
Dual Coding Hypothesis
41. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
Exhibition
Face Validity
Babbling
Dynamic Assessment Approach
42. 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).
Real Self-Efficacy
T-Scores
Long-Term Memory
Deficiency Needs
43. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Norm Group
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Psychometrics
44. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Development
Echoic Storage Register
Achievement Tests
Voice Disorders
45. 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 intrinsic to the student.
Effort
Two-sigma problem
Descriptive Grading Scales
Simple Moral Education Programs
46. One of the two divisions of human needs according to Maslow. These needs are intellectual achievement - aesthetic appreciation (understanding and appreciating the beauty and truth in the world) - and self-actualization (becoming all that one can be).
Brainstorming
Growth Needs
Jigsaw II
Inattention
47. Students with this condition have learned that their efforts are all in vain and have given up trying to study by themselves.
Organization
Growth Needs
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Learned Helplessness
48. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Aptitude Tests
Instruction
Responsibility
Internalization
49. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Scheduled Time
Two-sigma problem
Shaping
Real Self-Efficacy
50. 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.
Intermittent Retardation
Token Economy
Encoding
Conventional Morality