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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Disorder affecting a child's hearing.
Instruction
Hearing Impairment
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Critical pedagogy
2. A model of intelligence by Guilford which consists of 150 types of intelligence. According to Guilford - all types of intelligence can be organized along three dimensions: operations (such as memory - cognition - or evaluation) - products (such as un
Phonics Approach
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Social Cognition
Behavioral Theory
3. The exchange of thoughts and feelings through both verbal and nonverbal (such as gestures and facial expressions) means.
General Objectives
Perception
Communication
Gender Role
4. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.
Student Team Achievement Decisions
Models (Instruction)
Phonemes
Phonology
5. 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.
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Imaginary Audience Fallacy
Validity
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
6. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Group Consequences
Character Education Programs
Gender Bias
Triarchic Theory
7. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Working-Backward Strategy
Mnemonic Devices
Achievement Test Battery
8. An approach to teaching reading which emphasizes the ability to decode words - involving rules for learning phonemes.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Hyperactivity
Expressive Disorders
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
9. A medical condition present after birth that causes the child to reason or to cope with social situations far below average.
Gender Identity
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Semantics
Mental Retardation
10. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Learning Disability
Schemata
Token Economy
Descriptive Grading Scales
11. How capable one believes him- or herself to be.
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Direct instruction
Phonology
Dynamic Assessment Approach
12. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Portfolio
Conditioning
Community-Based Education Programs
Conservation
13. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.
Algorithm
Public Law 94-142
Primary Reinforcer
Pervasive Retardation
14. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Organization
Behavior Disorders
Inclusion
Affective Objectives
15. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
General Objectives
Internalization
Social Cognition
16. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Human Needs Theory
Two-sigma problem
Validity
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
17. A level of identity status where one has no idea who he or she is - and has not made any significant effort to find out.
Mental Retardation
Identity Diffusion
Operant Behavior
Models (Observational Learning)
18. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Ability
Academic Learning Time
Mnemonic Devices
Development
19. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Transitivity
T-Scores
Holophrastic Speech
20. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who are easily distracted and cannot remain focused or remember information.
Simple Moral Education Programs
Language Experience Strategy
Problem Solving
Inattention
21. 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.
Tracking
Social Inferences
Hearing Impairment
Performance Grading Scales
22. A theory of internal motivation - the forces which drive behavior in the absence of any external stimuli. A key part of this theory is intrinsic motivation.
Self-Determination Theory
Aptitude Tests
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
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.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Standard Error of Estimate
Object-Relations Theory
Elaborative Encoding
24. An approach to teaching reading which attempts to enhance children's phonetic awareness - or ability to discriminate between different phonemes. This method teaches students the relationships between written words and their different phonemes.
Language Experience Strategy
Secondary Reinforcer
Working or Short-Term Memory
Phonics Approach
25. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Elaborative Encoding
Deficiency Needs
Difficulty of the Task
Instruction
26. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Demonstrations
Achievement Motivation
Law of Effect
Morphemes
27. A form of behavioral modification where the teacher and student create a contract specifying certain academic goals and the rewards or privileges that will be given once the goals are reached.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Contingency Contracting
Mild Retardation
Psychometrics
28. Students with learning difficulties who require special attention to reach their fullest potentials.
Visual Impairment
Percentile Scores
Algorithm
Exceptional Learners
29. 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.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Impulsivity
External Locus of Control
Learning Disabilities
30. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Proactive Interference
Achievement Tests
Teaching Efficacy
Criterion-Referenced Testing
31. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Mental Retardation
Moratorium
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Portfolio
32. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Problem Solving
Chunking
Morphemes
33. 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.
Inclusion
Responsibility
Effort
IDEAL Strategy
34. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Two-sigma problem
Secondary Reinforcer
Retroactive Interference
Expected Outcomes
35. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Whole Language Approach
Direct instruction
Community-Based Education Programs
Impulsivity
36. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.
Epilepsy
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
Percentile Scores
Cooing
37. 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
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Scheduled Time
Planned Ignoring
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
38. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.
Instruction
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Extrinsic Motivation
Long-Term Memory
39. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
Clustering
Echoic Storage Register
Criterion-Referenced Testing
40. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.
Engaged Time
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Standard Error of Estimate
Centration
41. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Z-Scores
Extensive Retardation
Primary Reinforcer
Conditioning
42. The second level of processing - and the first level of information storage - in the Two-Store Model. At this level - the person is consciously perceiving certain aspects of the external world. In adults - this kind of memory holds up to seven - plus
Working or Short-Term Memory
Elaboration
Gender Identity
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
43. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.
Exhibition
Engaged Time
Holophrastic Speech
General Objectives
44. Academic programs where students are given a deeper education in their areas of interest.
General Exploratory Activities
Concept-Driven Models
Enrichment Programs
Maturation
45. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.
Centration
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Inclusion
Perceived Self-Efficacy
46. 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.
Working-Backward Strategy
Keyword
Pragmatics
Dyslexia
47. A person's self-perception - what one thinks of oneself.
Symbolic Modeling
Identity
Attention
Formative Evaluation
48. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Learning Disabilities
49. Disorder affecting a child's sight.
Generative learning
Two-Store Model
Construct Validity
Visual Impairment
50. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Seriation
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Foreclosure