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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The sensory register for visual information.






2. A type of learning where the teacher encourages the students to find their own meaning in learning. The teacher will show relationships between the new subject matter and past learning and will encourage the students to have confidence in their own a






3. According to the Attribution Theory - a student who holds this belief considers success or failure to be uncontrollable.






4. A measure of how imperfect the validity of a test is.






5. A sample group who is to represent the population being tested.






6. A disorder characterized by an impairment of one's cognitive abilities and problems with adapting to situations. Individuals with this problem often have IQs of under 70.






7. Concepts - subdivisions of schemata that help one understand and interpret different parts of the world.






8. The ability to translate written symbols into abstract concepts and ideas.






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






10. Students with these disorders are depressed - anxious - and withdrawn - lacking confidence.






11. Familiar responses to a problem one uses without thinking the situation through.






12. Difficulty pronouncing the correct sound or substituting with an incorrect sound.






13. Difficulty speaking due to an obstruction of air in the nose or throat.






14. The degree to which performance on one test correlates with performance on a second test.






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






16. A measure of how well scores from one half of a test correlate with those from the other half.






17. Teachers with this quality are constantly aware of and in control of everything going on in a classroom.






18. A theory which states that the primary source of motivation is extrinsic - or external - rewards.






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






20. Directly viewing the reinforcement or punishment of different behaviors.






21. The process a teacher uses in discovery learning by guiding the students.






22. Language disorders characterized by difficulty forming sounds or coherent sentences.






23. A level of identity status where the adolescent is actively trying out different beliefs - behaviors - and lifestyles to discover his or her identity.






24. Controlled academic programs designed to stimulate students to learn new problem-solving skills.






25. An approach to problem solving where one reasons how to reach the goal based on the current situation.






26. Assumptions about how different social relationships work and how other people feel and think.






27. Theories which argue that the language - culture - and traditions of minority students negatively affects their academic ability.






28. A common misconception among adolescents that one is destined for fame and fortune.






29. 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.






30. The ability to focus solely on one object. According to Piaget - preoperational children have developed this skill.






31. Consciously knowing and using methods of problem solving and memory.






32. A reinforcer which is paired with a primary reinforcer - such as money or good grades.






33. Mental retardation characterized by an IQ between 35 and 49.






34. The amount of Allocated Time each individual student spends focused on the class.






35. Internalized self-talk.






36. Reading models which focus on analyzing words letter-by-letter to fully understand the meaning of a text.






37. An approach to classroom management where the teacher will enforce clear rules for student conduct - quickly and impartially punishing any disobedience.






38. General statements about the skills and abilities the student should have after completing the course.






39. 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 intrinsic to the student.






40. According to the Two-Store Model - this is the first phase of memory processing. This part of memory temporarily holds all sensory information.






41. A method of rehearsal where one retains information in short-term memory by relating it to previously learned knowledge.






42. A method of scaling scores which evaluates students in terms of the grade level at which they are functioning.






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






44. A level of moral reasoning guided by adherence to overarching moral principles - developed by Kohlberg. This level is also divided into two stages: stage 5 (realization that one is part of a large society where everyone deserves rights) and stage 6 (






45. 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.






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






47. Merely imitating another person's behavior without understanding its meaning.






48. 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.






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






50. 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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