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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






2. 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.






3. Mental retardation requiring constant high-intensity educational support to pass through school.






4. A kind of performance-based testing strategy that combines multiple projects of the student that were made at various stages in a project.






5. A process that occurs when two stimuli are consistently paired - causing the presence of one to evoke the other.






6. The degree to which a test accurately predicts a student's future behavior.






7. Educating exceptional learners in a regular classroom while offering them any extra assistance they need.






8. The set of social and behavioral norms for each gender held by society.






9. A theory which proposes that there are eight different kinds of cognitive intelligences - none of which are necessarily correlated. The intelligences are spacial - linguistic - logical-mathematical - bodily-kinesthetic - musical - interpersonal - int

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10. An intelligence test for young children ages 2-7.






11. The study of the social aspects of language use.






12. A mnemonic device that creates a shorthand based on the first letter of each word in a set to be memorized.






13. A testing procedure that measures an individual student's score relative to those of a representative group of students. These tests are used to rank students based on their skill levels compared to their peers.






14. Breaking apart a learning task into specific - concrete objectives a student must achieve to master the task.






15. A common misconception among adolescents that everyone is constantly watching and scrutinizing the adolescent's behavior.






16. A reinforcer which is paired with multiple primary reinforcers - such as academic achievement or social standing.






17. The amount of time the student spends focused on his studies when he is successful at learning the material.






18. Relating new information to that previously learned.






19. 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.






20. Theories which view the unique language - culture - and customs of minority children as an asset in their learning.






21. An individually administered intelligence test designed for children ages 6-16.






22. Advance organizers which list previously learned information the students will need for the lesson.






23. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development - a type of speech used by young children to guide their problem-solving process when working by themselves.






24. 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.






25. According to the Attribution Theory - this concept refers to how responsive a student believes the cause of success or failure to be.






26. Dividing large amounts of information into smaller pieces that are easier to remember.






27. A measure of the internal consistency of a test.






28. A raw score converted into a form in which it can be compared to other scores from the same test.






29. A measure of how well scores from the same test correlate when taken by the same people on two different occasions.






30. The inner drive to perform a particular behavior.






31. A problem-solving technique where one starts with the goal and works backward.






32. 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.






33. The sensory register for auditory information.






34. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 50 and 69.






35. Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. The inability to retrieve learned information.






39. The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget - concrete operational children have this skill.






40. A method of assessing how much students know in which the teacher will assist them in the problem-solving process.






41. Grouping students into different classes based on aptitude test scores.






42. The drive to perform a certain behavior solely to receive an external reward.






43. 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






44. 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.






45. The smallest unit of sound that affects a word's meaning.






46. A kind of teaching which stresses that students identify the underlying relationships between different concepts and ideas to enhance their understanding.






47. An unlimited cognitive storage system for retaining permanent records of information deemed important. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the third level of processing and the second level of storage.






48. 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.






49. Spontaneous noises an infant makes which include all of the sounds from every different language.






50. A bell-shaped curve which can be easily and consistently used to interpret scores.