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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. The total length of the class.
Scheduled Time
Extrinsic Motivation
Secondary Reinforcer
Severe and Profound Retardation
2. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Synthetic Intelligence
Proactive Interference
Taxonomy
Descriptive Grading Scales
3. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that allows students to apply knowledge learned in one situation to a different one.
Algorithm
Demonstrations
Responsibility
Scheduled Time
4. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Limited Retardation
Cooperative Learning
Cultural Deficit Theories
5. 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.
Perception
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Simple Moral Education Programs
Test-Retest Reliability
6. 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.
Taxonomy
Learning Disabilities
Norm-Referenced Testing
Retrieval
7. 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.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Preconventional Morality
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
8. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Whole Language Approach
Secondary Reinforcer
Scheduled Time
Normal Distribution
9. Those one observes.
Pivotal Response Therapy
Models (Observational Learning)
Sensory Register
Brainstorming
10. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Test-Retest Reliability
Mental Retardation
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Academic Learning Time
11. The degree to which a student desires and actively strives to excel and succeed.
Metacognition
Enrichment Programs
Achievement Motivation
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
12. A level of identity status where one has created his or her identity based on the opinions of others - not on personal choice.
Gender Bias
Synthetic Intelligence
Foreclosure
Development
13. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.
Transitivity
External Locus of Control
Achievement Test Battery
Split-Half (or Spearman-Brown) Reliability
14. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Babbling
Models (Observational Learning)
Encoding
Hearing Impairment
15. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Inattention
Internalization
Triarchic Theory
Enrichment Programs
16. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Phonics Approach
Elaborative Encoding
Sensory Register
Identity
17. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Fluency Disorders
Foreclosure
Voice Disorders
Heuristics
18. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Concurrent Validity
Encoding
Vicarious Learning
Expository Advance Organizers
19. Internalized self-talk.
Inner Speech
Accelerated Programs
Gender Role
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
20. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Heuristics
Constructivism
Accelerated Programs
21. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Centration
Subschemata
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Aptitude Tests
22. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Exhibition
Object-Relations Theory
Episodic Memory
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
23. 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.
Transformation
Attribution Theory
Proactive Interference
Keyword
24. 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.
Conditioning
Internalization
Achievement Tests
Encoding
25. 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.
Fluency Disorders
Affective Objectives
Self-Regulation
Pragmatics
26. 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 external to the student.
Premack Principle
Identity
Luck
Confidence Interval
27. 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).
Classification
Demonstrations
Social Cognition
Deficiency Needs
28. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Respondent Behavior
Content Validity
Expected Outcomes
Community-Based Education Programs
29. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Metacognition
Cooperative Learning
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Expository Advance Organizers
30. A kind of testing the teacher uses to determine what aspects of a subject to focus on - depending on how much the students know and comprehend.
Moratorium
Reciprocal Determinism
Formative Evaluation
Psychomotor Objectives
31. A form of behavioral modification where an desirable activity is used to strengthen a more unpleasant one.
Hyperactivity
Language System
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Premack Principle
32. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Descriptive Statistics
Internalization
Conditioning
Means-Ends Analysis
33. A disruptive disorder characterized by the underdevelopment of certain traits such as impulse control - leading to inattention - hyperactivity - and impulsiveness. The three types are predominantly hyperactive-impulsive - predominantly inattentive -
Taxonomy
Morphemes
Student Team Achievement Decisions
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
34. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Community-Based Education Programs
Learning Disability
Construct Validity
Models (Observational Learning)
35. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Sensory Register
Mnemonic Devices
Encoding
36. 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.
Corporal Punishment
attrition
Socioeconomic Status
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
37. The natural physical changes that occur due to a person's genetic code.
Human Needs Theory
Development
Internalization
Maturation
38. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.
Reading
Test-Retest Reliability
Response Set
Inclusion
39. A mnemonic device that aids the memory of a long list of information by linking each item in the list to a specific well-known location.
Method of Loci
General Exploratory Activities
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
40. A five-step problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the problem - defining one's goals - exploring possible ways to reach the goals - anticipating the outcomes and acting - and looking back on one's work.
IDEAL Strategy
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Withitness
Receptive Language Disorders
41. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.
Cultural Deficit Theories
Long-Term Memory
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Social Cognition
42. An approach to grading which uses a portfolio of a student's work to measure that student's development over time and to compare it to that of others in the class.
Reciprocal Determinism
Norm-Referenced Testing
Articulation Difficulties
Performance Grading Scales
43. The ability to think about multiple objects at the same time and discern relationships between them. According to Piaget - children in the concrete operational stage of development develop this skill.
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Whole Language Approach
Class Inclusion
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
44. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Identity Diffusion
Instruction
Luck
Classification
45. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Predictive Validity
Seriation
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Code Emphasis Strategy
46. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Academic Learning Time
Intrinsic Motivation
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
IDEAL Strategy
47. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Learning Disabilities
Extensive Retardation
Subschemata
Analytical Intelligence
48. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Language System
Deficiency Needs
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Achievement Test Battery
49. Taxonomies detailing the types of values and attitudes the student should develop by the end of the course.
Summative Evaluation
Affective Objectives
Two-sigma problem
T-Scores
50. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.
Perception
Derived Score
Phonemes
Concept-Driven Models
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