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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Moratorium
Pervasive Retardation
Static Assessment Approach
Reinforcer
2. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Conventional Morality
Visual Impairment
Pervasive Retardation
Identity
3. Clear and specific learning objectives that ensure both the teacher and the student stay on track.
Pedagogy
Shaping
Instructional Objectives
Norm Group
4. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Forgetting
Law of Effect
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Direct Modeling
5. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.
Retroactive Interference
Concurrent Validity
Pivotal Response Therapy
Token Economy
6. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Data-Driven Models
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
7. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.
General Exploratory Activities
Time-Out
Data-Driven Models
Holophrastic Speech
8. All sources that contribute to a student's learning. This term includes the teacher - the textbook - the principal - and any others who promote education.
Shaping
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Gifted and Talented Children
Instruction
9. Students with these disorders are angry - defiant - and hostile - seemingly unable to follow the teacher's rules.
Token Economy
Critical pedagogy
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Self-Determination Theory
10. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Time-Out
Task Analysis
Phonemes
Generative learning
11. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Academic Learning Time
Receptive Language Disorders
Psychomotor Objectives
Jigsaw II
12. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Absolute Grading Standards
Code Emphasis Strategy
Extensive Retardation
Responsibility
13. The collection of traits in a person that inspires him to behave honestly - respectfully - and courageously.
Classification
Character
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Observational Learning
14. Bilingual education programs which instruct minority students in their native tongue until they become more competent in English.
Phonemes
IDEAL Strategy
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Behavioral Theory
15. 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).
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Reciprocal Teaching
Pervasive Retardation
Deficiency Needs
16. A level of identity status where the adolescent has finally created his or her own personal identity.
Keyword
Law of Effect
Identity Achievement
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
17. Learning outcomes defined by specific operational steps and skills a student must master. Gronlund believed that general objectives would lead to these kinds of outcomes.
Engaged Time
Language System
Mastery Learning
Specific Learning Outcomes
18. Knowledge and understanding of society's rules - usually gained from experience.
Instructional Objectives
Social Cognition
Task Analysis
Effort
19. A testing procedure that measures a student's mastery of a particular skill or understanding of a certain concept. The purpose of this kind of test is to measure whether a student has achieved a certain learning objective.
Affective Objectives
Criterion-Referenced Testing
Portfolio
Educational Goals
20. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Corporal Punishment
Cultural Differences Theories
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
21. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Mental Retardation
Pedagogy
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Synthetic Intelligence
22. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Inner Speech
Extensive Retardation
IDEAL Strategy
23. A theory by Melanie Klein which proposes a child's personality develops from the child's relationship with his or her mother. According to this view - children need a strong mother to develop well.
Transitivity
Constructivism
Object-Relations Theory
Pervasive Retardation
24. Reading models which try to relate written words to different experiences of the student.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Analogies
Rehearsal
Concept-Driven Models
25. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Character Education Programs
Transitivity
Morphemes
Schemata
26. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Attention
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Operant Behavior
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
27. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Semantic Memory
Impulsivity
Babbling
Synthesized Modeling
28. 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
Social Cognition
Self-Regulation
Subschemata
29. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
attrition
Direct instruction
At-Risk Students
Gifted and Talented Children
30. 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.
Educational Psychology
Achievement Tests
Constructivism
Pivotal Response Therapy
31. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Receptive Language Disorders
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Achievement Motivation
Subschemata
32. A method of pedagogy where the teacher actively looks for ways to improve the students' knowledge of a subject. Ways of doing this include actively presenting concepts - checking to see if the students understand - and reteaching any trouble areas fo
Active teaching
Instructional Objectives
Self-Determination Theory
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
33. 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).
Conventional Morality
Specific Learning Outcomes
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Dyslexia
34. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.
Allocated Time
Language System
Primary Reinforcer
Metacognition
35. A division of long-term memory for storing rules and methods or performing specific tasks - called procedures.
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
Metacognition
Procedural Memory
Hearing Impairment
36. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Exhibition
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Instruction
37. The ability to arrange objects in order based on some common quality - such as height - color - or size. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Seriation
Comparative Advance Organizers
Simple Moral Education Programs
38. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Extrinsic Motivation
Psychomotor Objectives
Models (Instruction)
Centration
39. 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
Inclusion
Corporal Punishment
Transitivity
40. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Descriptive Grading Scales
Preconventional Morality
Guided Discovery
Secondary Reinforcer
41. The ability to organize objects based on some common characteristic. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have mastered this skill.
Classification
Academic Learning Time
Constructivism
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
42. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Operant Behavior
Achievement Test Battery
Group Training Experiences
Learning Disability
43. 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.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Semantics
Type-S Conditioning
Token Economy
44. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Advance Organizer
Achievement Test Battery
Corporal Punishment
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
45. 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.
Direct Modeling
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Operant Behavior
Deficiency Needs
46. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Transformation
Responsibility
Internalization
Iconic Storage Register
47. The study of the social aspects of language use.
Pragmatics
Epilepsy
Schemata
Absolute Grading Standards
48. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Normal Distribution
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
49. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Elaborative Encoding
Extrinsic Motivation
Self-Efficacy
Gender Identity
50. 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 (
Postconventional Morality
Secondary Reinforcer
Models (Instruction)
Self-Efficacy
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