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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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).
Accelerated Programs
Deficiency Needs
Automaticity
Analogies
2. 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.
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Standard Error of Estimate
Specific Learning Outcomes
Maturation
3. 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.
Voice Disorders
Extensive Retardation
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Affective Objectives
4. Punishing or rewarding the entire class based on its obedience to the rules.
External Locus of Control
Group Consequences
Cognitive Objectives
Self-Efficacy
5. A measure of how well scores from two different tests meant to evaluate the same thing correlate with each other.
External Locus of Control
Validity
Taxonomy
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
6. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Heuristics
Teaching Efficacy
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Aptitude Tests
7. Internalized self-talk.
Extrinsic Motivation
Whole Language Approach
Limited Retardation
Inner Speech
8. 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.
Extrinsic Motivation
Practical Intelligence
Shaping
Moderate Retardation
9. A kind of forgetting where previously learned information interferes with the retrieval of new information.
Proactive Interference
Perception
Centration
Maturation
10. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Receptive Language Disorders
Dyslexia
Assertive Discipline
Perceived Self-Efficacy
11. The difference between the skills a child develops alone and those that can be learned with the help of someone knowledgeable. This concept was developed by Vygotsky.
Morphemes
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Clustering
12. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Pivotal Response Therapy
Mild Retardation
13. A type of instruction which involves the teacher systematically leading the students step by step to a particular learning goals. This type of teaching is best for learning math or other complex skills - but not for less structured tasks such as Engl
Phonemes
Character
Gender Identity
Direct instruction
14. A method of assessing how much students know by giving them closed-ended response questions they are to answer by themselves.
Communication
Attribution Theory
Static Assessment Approach
Enrichment Programs
15. Those one observes.
Models (Observational Learning)
T-Scores
Two-Store Model
Identity
16. A community-centered approach to character education that attempts to apply what the students learn in the classroom to everyday life.
Triarchic Theory
Community-Based Education Programs
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Invincibility Fallacy
17. 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.
Cooperative Learning
Response Set
General Objectives
Shaping
18. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.
Cultural Differences Theories
Specific Learning Outcomes
External Locus of Control
Vicarious Learning
19. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.
Analogies
Means-Ends Analysis
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
Models (Observational Learning)
20. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Inclusion
Vicarious Learning
Epilepsy
Holophrastic Speech
21. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Working-Backward Strategy
Descriptive Statistics
Morphemes
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
22. 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.
Automaticity
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Luck
Method of Loci
23. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.
Expository Teaching
Gender Identity
Iconic Storage Register
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
24. 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 stable and external to the student.
Difficulty of the Task
Internal Locus of Control
Long-Term Memory
Brainstorming
25. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Holophrastic Speech
Respondent Behavior
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Automaticity
26. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.
Behavioral Theory
Whole Language Approach
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Centration
27. Mental retardation needing emotion care on an as-needed basis.
Content Validity
Intermittent Retardation
Enrichment Programs
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
28. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Comparative Advance Organizers
Response-Cost System
General (or High-Road) Transfer
29. Repeating information in the same way it was received.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
Educational Goals
Vicarious Learning
30. A kind of performance-based testing strategy where students will work on a project over a long period of time.
Problem Solving
Exhibition
Allocated Time
Learning Disabilities
31. 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.
Two-sigma problem
Reading
Cultural Deficit Theories
Self-Regulation
32. Asking students challenging questions to gauge their understanding and focus their attention.
Learned Helplessness
Analytical Intelligence
Questioning Techniques
Problem Solving
33. The degree to which a test correlates with a direct measure of what the test is designed to measure - such as how well a reading test correlates with a student's actual reading level.
Attention
Instruction
Effort
Criterion-Related Validity
34. A type of cooperative learning where students will be divided into teams and each student will be responsible for some aspect of a project.
Inner Speech
Absolute Grading Standards
Jigsaw II
Human Needs Theory
35. 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.
Contingency Contracting
Internal Locus of Control
Instructional Theory
Analytical Intelligence
36. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Seriation
Group Training Experiences
Retroactive Interference
Functional Fixedness
37. Advance organizers which list new - unlearned information the students will need for the lesson.
Expository Advance Organizers
Social Learning and Expectancy
Allocated Time
Teaching Efficacy
38. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Phonology
Construct Validity
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Norm-Referenced Testing
39. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Internal Locus of Control
Stability
Mediated Learning Experiences (MLE)
Norm-Referenced Testing
40. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.
Descriptive Statistics
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Norm Group
Holophrastic Speech
41. A division of long-term memory for storing events in one's life.
Episodic Memory
Schemata
Test Bias
Long-Term Memory
42. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
attrition
Dynamic Assessment Approach
Models (Observational Learning)
43. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Models (Instruction)
Conditioning
Phonemes
44. The study of the meaning behind words.
Human Needs Theory
Semantics
Method of Loci
Mental Retardation
45. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Content Validity
Cognitive Objectives
Rehearsal
Learning Disability
46. Disorders characterized by difficulty communicating - either by having trouble expressing oneself or by being unable to properly receive information.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Foreclosure
Object-Relations Theory
Pedagogy
47. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Achievement Test Battery
Inner Speech
Cultural Differences Theories
Perception
48. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.
Transitional Bilingual Programs
Proactive Interference
Gender Identity
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
49. According to researcher Benjamin Bloom - students with individual tutors generally perform two standard deviations (two 'sigmas') above those in average classrooms.
Identity Achievement
Instructional Objectives
Expository Teaching
Two-sigma problem
50. 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.
Mastery Learning
Language Experience Strategy
Instructional Objectives
Student Team Achievement Decisions