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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ of 34 or lower.
Severe and Profound Retardation
Classification
Retrieval
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
2. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Impulsivity
Exceptional Learners
Synthesized Modeling
Face Validity
3. A possible range a student's scores may fall in if the student took the test multiple times.
Confidence Interval
Symbolic Modeling
Public Law 94-142
Token Economy
4. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.
Confidence Interval
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Character Education Programs
Behavior Disorders
5. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Percentile Scores
Summative Evaluation
Reliability
Elaboration
6. 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.
Pervasive Retardation
Two-sigma problem
Identity
Socioeconomic Status
7. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Responsibility
Operant Behavior
Relative Grading Scales (Curving)
8. The relationship between a student and his or her environment. According to this principle - the student and the environment will influence and affect each other.
Brainstorming
Elaboration
Reciprocal Determinism
Educational Goals
9. The belief that one gender is better than the other.
Gender Bias
Reliability
Internalization
Extrinsic Motivation
10. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.
Zone of Proximal (or Potential) Development
Descriptive Grading Scales
Attention
Test-Retest Reliability
11. A teacher's belief that he or she can successfully encourage and enable students to reach their highest levels of achievement - regardless of how difficult the process is.
Stability
Human Needs Theory
Achievement Motivation
Teaching Efficacy
12. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.
Procedural Memory
Conditioning
Learning Disability
Chunking
13. The path one follows to correct his or her behavior based on discrepancies between his or her performance and that of a model.
Difficulty of the Task
Feedback Loop
Conditioning
Type-S Conditioning
14. A broad category of disorders in which the individual has difficulty learning in a typical way.
Contingency Contracting
Learning Disability
Holophrastic Speech
Carroll's Model of School Learning
15. 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.
Identity
Dyslexia
Pragmatics
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
16. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.
Achievement Motivation
Predictive Validity
Community-Based Education Programs
Retroactive Interference
17. Language disorders characterized by trouble understanding spoken language.
Reliability
Receptive Language Disorders
Working-Backward Strategy
Dyslexia
18. Consciously focusing on specific stimuli. This process prevents irrelevant information from interfering with one's cognitive processes.
Internal Locus of Control
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Attention
Questioning Techniques
19. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.
Task Analysis
Operant Behavior
Synthetic Intelligence
Impulsivity
20. 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-Talk (or Private Speech)
Reinforcer
Algorithm
Self-Determination Theory
21. A teaching style which seeks to instruct students in how to recognize and rise up against oppression. This area of teaching is influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Critical pedagogy
Classification
Gifted and Talented Children
Corporal Punishment
22. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.
Identity
Transitivity
Deficiency Needs
Gender Identity
23. 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.
Extensive Retardation
Voice Disorders
Inner Speech
Luck
24. Tests designed to evaluate a student's present performance and predict how well he or she will perform in the future.
Character Education Programs
Transformation
Mental Retardation
Aptitude Tests
25. A theory which focuses on how to structure material to best teach students - especially young ones. This approach can be divided into two general approaches: cognitive and behavioral.
Z-Scores
Cultural Differences Theories
Formative Evaluation
Instructional Theory
26. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.
Content Validity
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Academic Learning Time
Group Consequences
27. Internalized self-talk.
Achievement Motivation
Data-Driven Models
Internalizing Behavior Disorders
Inner Speech
28. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Inattention
Synthetic Intelligence
Comparative Advance Organizers
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
29. The sensory register for visual information.
Data-Driven Models
Iconic Storage Register
Hearing Impairment
Semantics
30. A principle proposed by Edward Thorndike stating behaviors with positive outcomes will be repeated while those with negative outcomes will be avoided.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Procedural Memory
Object-Relations Theory
Law of Effect
31. The use of physical punishment.
Cooing
Corporal Punishment
Human Needs Theory
Retroactive Interference
32. The study of the theory and technique of creating psychological tests - such as IQ - aptitude - or personality trait tests.
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Psychometrics
Group Training Experiences
Exceptional Learners
33. A form of behavioral modification for getting a subject to start performing a preferable behavior by reinforcing components of the desired behavior and gradually rewarding more discriminatively.
Shaping
IDEAL Strategy
Communication
Epilepsy
34. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Token Economy
Response Set
Articulation Difficulties
Fluency Disorders
35. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Chunking
Rehearsal
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Schemata
36. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Extensive Retardation
Law of Effect
Organization
Stanine (STAndard NINE)
37. Transferring a general method of problem solving from one situation to the next.
Identity Achievement
Social Cognition
Algorithm
General (or High-Road) Transfer
38. A theory of intelligence by Sternberg which views intelligence as consisting of three components: processing components (the ability to process information and solve problems) - contextual components (the ability to apply intelligence to everyday pro
Difficulty of the Task
Pedagogy
Triarchic Theory
Concept-Driven Models
39. Students who are in danger of failing to complete a basic education needed for operating successfully in society.
Fluency Disorders
At-Risk Students
Active teaching
Clustering
40. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.
Time-Out
Kuder-Richardson Reliability
Concept-Driven Models
Cultural Differences Theories
41. 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.
Reversibility
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Criterion-Related Validity
Achievement Test Battery
42. A reinforcer which is naturally desirable - such as food - water - or heat.
T-Scores
Effort
Primary Reinforcer
Chunking
43. Learning which results from observing the results of others' behaviors and judging whether to perform them oneself.
Reinforcer
Communication
Observational Learning
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
44. A legal document describing a child's special needs and what programs and assistance he or she will receive.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Anxiety Disorders
Test Bias
Invincibility Fallacy
45. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.
Secondary Reinforcer
Conventional Morality
Chunking
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
46. Abstract representations of different parts of reality. These groups usually contain general knowledge of the world and examples of its specific parts.
Constructivism
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Schemata
Time-Out
47. Methods of quantitatively analyzing and organizing scores. The methods used include mean - median - mode - range - and standard deviation.
Effort
Structural Cognitive Modifiability
Limited Retardation
Descriptive Statistics
48. A kind of forgetting where new information interferes with the retrieval of previously learned information.
Normal Distribution
Keyword
Generative learning
Retroactive Interference
49. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.
Means-Ends Analysis
Development
Normal Distribution
T-Scores
50. A behavior not clearly related to a particular stimulus - according to operant conditioning.
Operant Behavior
Observational Learning
Corporal Punishment
Community-Based Education Programs