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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology
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1. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.
Assertive Discipline
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Socioeconomic Status
Token Economy
2. Another name for classical conditioning - based on the importance of stimuli on this approach.
Type-S Conditioning
Summative Evaluation
Synthesized Modeling
Procedural Memory
3. 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.
Forgetting
Comparative Advance Organizers
Postconventional Morality
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
4. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.
Performance Grading Scales
Portfolio
Working or Short-Term Memory
Centration
5. Integrating parts of the behaviors from several models to form a new behavioral set.
Test Bias
Exhibition
Community-Based Education Programs
Synthesized Modeling
6. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.
Epilepsy
attrition
Cultural Differences Theories
Expressive Disorders
7. The use of a single word to represent an entire thought. This kind of speech is found in young children.
Holophrastic Speech
Instruction
Individual and Small-Group Activities
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
8. A method of scaling scores using a percentage of scores less than or equal to the student's score.
Normal Distribution
Task Analysis
Percentile Scores
Specific Learning Outcomes
9. 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.
Portfolio
Analytical Intelligence
Language Experience Strategy
Gender Role
10. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.
Grade-Level Equivalent Scores
Mastery Learning
Inattention
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
11. A method of scaling scores using a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
Type-S Conditioning
T-Scores
Perceived Self-Efficacy
Intrinsic Motivation
12. Deliberate repetition of information in short-term memory.
Rehearsal
Responsibility
Critical pedagogy
Respondent Behavior
13. 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.
Vicarious Learning
Self-Talk (or Private Speech)
Psychometrics
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
14. Academic programs focused on real-life problems and situations - such as developing professional skills or resisting negative peer pressure.
General (or High-Road) Transfer
Triarchic Theory
Intermittent Retardation
Individual and Small-Group Activities
15. A category of psychological disorders where the sufferer will experience chronic anxiety and apprehension.
Cooperative Learning
Phonology
Anxiety Disorders
Mental Retardation
16. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Subschemata
Contingency Contracting
Self-Efficacy
17. 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.
Impulsivity
ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Keyword
Mild Retardation
18. 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).
Deficiency Needs
Cooperative Learning
Effort
Derived Score
19. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.
Subschemata
Cultural Differences Theories
Social Inferences
Articulation Difficulties
20. Tests used to determine a student's strengths and weaknesses - judging whether or not a student needs special education services.
Percentile Scores
Diagnostic Achievement Tests
Perception
Student Team Achievement Decisions
21. A condition where a test consistently provides an inaccurate score due to some property of the test taker - such as gender - socioeconomic status - or race.
Working or Short-Term Memory
English as a Second Language (ESL) Programs
Instruction
Test Bias
22. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.
Secondary Reinforcer
Severe and Profound Retardation
Intrinsic Motivation
Guided Discovery
23. A measure of how consistent scores are on the same test. Any differences are attributed to errors in the test.
Learned Helplessness
Triarchic Theory
Reliability
Perceived Self-Efficacy
24. The smallest meaningful units in a language.
Morphemes
Direct instruction
Achievement Motivation
Character
25. 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.
Practical Intelligence
Shaping
Generalized Reinforcer
Contingency Contracting
26. A measure of how well a test correlates with the skill - trait - or behavior the test is supposed to be evaluating.
Schemata
Validity
Concept-Driven Models
Postconventional Morality
27. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.
Moderate Retardation
Critical pedagogy
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Learned Helplessness
28. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how constant or changeable a student believes something to be.
Performance-Based Test Strategies
Response-Cost System
Voice Disorders
Stability
29. A strategy of teaching reading which stresses the overall meaning of a passage.
Norm-Referenced Testing
Concept-Driven Models
Respondent Behavior
Meaning Emphasis Strategy
30. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.
Maintenance or Rote Rehearsal
Foreclosure
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Elaborative Encoding
31. An approach to grading which establishes a standard students must reach to pass and allows them to continue studying until they reach it.
Mastery Grading Scales
Syntax
Language Experience Strategy
Aptitude Tests
32. The process of interpreting and making sense of the world according to Piaget's model of cognitive development.
Working-Backward Strategy
Organization
Self-Efficacy
Scheduled Time
33. An approach to grading using descriptive terms such as 'outstanding' or 'unsatisfactory' to rate the student's performance.
Self-Regulation
Descriptive Grading Scales
Type-R Conditioning
Phonology
34. 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.
Discovery Learning (or Guided Learning or Constructivism)
Carroll's Model of School Learning
Group Training Experiences
Task Analysis
35. Information given in advance of a lesson to prepare the students by reminding them of important information learned before and focusing them on key information.
Confidence Interval
Enrichment Programs
Advance Organizer
Foreclosure
36. The total length of the class.
Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD)
Operant Behavior
Scheduled Time
Semantics
37. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.
Voice Disorders
Iconic Storage Register
Procedural Memory
Personal Fable
38. One's perceived abilities and competence. According to the Social Learning and Expectancy theory - this depends on four kinds of social experiences: personal experiences of the student; vicarious experiences (observing the rewards or punishments othe
Achievement Test Battery
Echoic Storage Register
Psychomotor Objectives
Self-Efficacy
39. The process of taking in and integrating information from the environment.
Internalization
Construct Validity
Community-Based Education Programs
Maintenance Bilingual Programs
40. 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.
Visual Impairment
Object-Relations Theory
Heuristics
Externalizing Behavior Disorders
41. One of the characteristics of ADHD. This term describes students who seem to be unable to sit still - constantly fidgeting or displaying other disruptive behaviors.
Speech and Language Communication Disorders
Hyperactivity
Personal Fable
Mental Retardation
42. The study of how students learn and develop.
Content Validity
Retrieval
Educational Psychology
attrition
43. Mental retardation requiring consistent educational support.
Pragmatics
Reciprocal Determinism
Limited Retardation
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children)
44. A form of negative punishment where a disruptive student is removed from the classroom and not allowed back until he or she is ready to behave.
Time-Out
Specific Learning Outcomes
Enrichment Programs
Proactive Interference
45. Allowing each student to reach full mastery of a concept - regardless of how long it takes.
Algorithm
Instruction
Mastery Learning
Synthetic Intelligence
46. Using a previously learned fact or skill in a different situation in virtually the same way.
Z-Scores
Articulation Difficulties
Specific (or Low-Road) Transfer
Observational Learning
47. Tests used to determine if students have achieved a minimum amount of learning needed to pass a class.
Specific Learning Outcomes
Formative Evaluation
Competency Tests (or End-of-Grade Tests)
Student Team Achievement Decisions
48. An intelligence test for adults used most commonly in clinical settings.
Postconventional Morality
Self-Determination Theory
WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
Language System
49. Difficulty forming smooth connections between words.
Human Needs Theory
Receptive Language Disorders
Direct instruction
Fluency Disorders
50. A mnemonic device that creates a sentence based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.
Analytical Intelligence
Acrostic Mnemonic Device
Concurrent Validity
Extensive Retardation