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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. 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.
Models (Instruction)
Impulsivity
Absolute Grading Standards
Effort
2. A learning disability which impairs a person's language ability. Those with this disorder may have difficulty with reading - writing - or spelling.
Expressive Disorders
Semantic Memory
Dyslexia
Steiner-Waldorf Education
3. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Models (Instruction)
Problem Solving
Limited Retardation
4. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Visual Impairment
Decay
Stability
Secondary Reinforcer
5. 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.
Direct instruction
Exceptional Learners
Class Inclusion
Encoding
6. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Motivation
Psychometrics
Academic Learning Time
7. A humanistic - interdisciplinary form of teaching which emphasizes the role of creativity and imagination in learning. According to this theory - children pass through three learning stages: imitative learning - artistic learning - and abstract learn
Inner Speech
Absolute Grading Standards
Steiner-Waldorf Education
Internalization
8. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Automaticity
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Internal Locus of Control
9. 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.
Jigsaw II
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Maturation
Token Economy
10. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Phonics Approach
Formative Evaluation
Impulsivity
Schemata
11. 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.
Gender Identity
Effort
Proactive Interference
Method of Loci
12. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Aptitude Tests
Type-S Conditioning
Metacognition
Operant Behavior
13. A type of learning where a small group of students will work together on the same project - each making some contribution.
Cooperative Learning
Voice Disorders
Expressive Disorders
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
14. A group of children who are outstandingly intelligent (i.e. an IQ of 130 or greater) or are exceptionally skilled in a particular subject or area.
Secondary Reinforcer
Anxiety Disorders
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Gifted and Talented Children
15. 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.
Direct Modeling
Phonics Approach
Cooperative Learning
Syntax
16. The degree to which a test accurately measures the trait or skill it is designed to measure.
Mental Retardation
Construct Validity
Mastery Grading Scales
External Locus of Control
17. A behavior related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Extrinsic Motivation
Gender Bias
Two-Store Model
Respondent Behavior
18. General short-cut strategies to problem solving one uses which may not always be correct.
Heuristics
Inner Speech
Standard Error of Estimate
Mental Retardation
19. An approach to grading where students' individual scores are compared to a predetermined average score.
Effort
Community-Based Education Programs
Object-Relations Theory
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
20. Tests designed to measure a student's completion or a particular course or subject area.
Phonemes
Brainstorming
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Achievement Tests
21. 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.
Gender Identity
Models (Observational Learning)
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Accelerated Programs
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.
Expected Outcomes
Invincibility Fallacy
Luck
Self-Efficacy
23. 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.
Pedagogy
Seriation
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
24. A kind of meaning emphasis strategy which integrates reading with other language skills such as speaking - writing - and listening.
Postconventional Morality
Whole Language Approach
Descriptive Grading Scales
Test Bias
25. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Social Inferences
Premack Principle
Structure of Intellect (SOI)
Problem Solving
26. One's social and economic standing - including one's class - race - and education. SES is highly influential on students' success in school - with those from low-SES families performing below their high-SES classmates.
Internalization
Echoic Storage Register
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Socioeconomic Status
27. The degree to which the content of a test represents the broader subject area the test is supposed to measure.
Reliability
Content Validity
Expository Teaching
Perceived Self-Efficacy
28. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Gender Bias
Test-Retest Reliability
Transitional Bilingual Programs
External Locus of Control
29. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Practical Intelligence
Law of Effect
Psychometrics
Perceived Self-Efficacy
30. 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.
Direct Modeling
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Attribution Theory
Absolute Grading Standards
31. According to self-determination theory - the drive one has to perform a specific behavior not for a reward (extrinsic motivation) but for the sheer pleasure of the action itself.
Models (Observational Learning)
Intrinsic Motivation
Type-R Conditioning
Planned Ignoring
32. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.
Inclusion
Identity
Intermittent Retardation
Derived Score
33. Mental retardation needing daily help and support in school.
Direct Modeling
Mild Retardation
Type-S Conditioning
Extensive Retardation
34. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be in his or her control.
Code Emphasis Strategy
Internal Locus of Control
Affective Objectives
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
35. The ability to perform a task automatically - with little or no conscious effort.
Automaticity
Instruction
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Content Validity
36. The total length of the class.
Subschemata
Scheduled Time
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
Standard Error of Estimate
37. The sensory register for auditory information.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Static Assessment Approach
Echoic Storage Register
Validity
38. 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.
Working-Backward Strategy
Constructivism
Intermittent Retardation
Class Inclusion
39. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Whole Language Approach
Dual Coding Hypothesis
WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
Portfolio
40. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.
Organization
Motivation
Severe and Profound Retardation
Dynamic Assessment Approach
41. A common misconception among adolescents that one is invincible - impervious to harm.
Schemata
Dual Coding Hypothesis
Working-Backward Strategy
Invincibility Fallacy
42. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Postconventional Morality
Expository Advance Organizers
Retroactive Interference
Concept-Driven Models
43. The ability to mentally retain an object even after it has changed form - such as ice melting into water. According to Piaget - children in the preoperational stage of development lack this ability.
Reciprocal Determinism
Normal Distribution
Transformation
Assertive Discipline
44. The innate ability to use language - as described by Chomsky.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Concept-Driven Models
Taxonomy
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
45. The loss of subjects in a research study over time due to participant drop-out.
Scheduled Time
Mental Retardation
attrition
Concurrent Validity
46. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.
Normal Distribution
Gender Role
Instructional Theory
Cooing
47. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.
Mild Retardation
Secondary Reinforcer
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Human Needs Theory
48. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
Reading
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Achievement Test Battery
Z-Scores
49. Bilingual education programs which aim to use English as much as possible.
Exhibition
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Working or Short-Term Memory
Alternate (or Parallel) Forms Reliability
50. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.
Group Training Experiences
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Reciprocal Teaching
Exceptional Learners