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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Serves as a means of teacher accountability - as an estimate of instructional effectiveness - and as a guideline for adjusting a lesson's focus. Assessment is also a means of providing students with the opportunity to give the teacher corrective feed
assessment planning
extrinsic reinforcement
mnemonic devices
intrapersonal
2. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
primary reinforcement
overinclusive thinking
empiricists
egocentrism
3. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
criterion-referenced testing
Sensory gating
schema
extrinsic reinforcement
4. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
egocentrism
mathemagenic effects
Retroactive inhibition
Removal punishment
5. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
Gardner's multiple intelligences
Transformative Multicultural education
cognitive disequilibrium
Bloom's Taxonomy
6. Field of study concerned with the theory and technique of educational and psychological measurement - which includes the measurement of knowledge - abilities - attitudes - and personality traits.
psychometric
Mager's three-part system
Retroactive inhibition
positive reinforcement
7. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
Assimilation
KWL
personal fable
'g' factor
8. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
interpersonal
Transformative Multicultural education
Premack principle
PQ4R
9. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
mathemagenic effects
primary reinforcement
interpersonal-concordance
interpersonal
10. Things or events tht occur close to each other in space or time tend to get linked together in the mind. If you think of a cup - you think of a saucer.
The law of contiguity
'g' factor
procedural memory
formative assessment
11. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
interpersonal-concordance
'g' factor
negative reinforcement
12. Suggests that any behavior followed by a pleasing effect will tend to be repeated; behaviors followed by dissatisfying effects will tend to be discontinued. This is the basis for the use of reinforcement in operant conditioning.
semantic memory
The law of effect
Hierarchical maps
KWL
13. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
formative assessment
Elaboration rehearsal
Transductive reasoning
intrapersonal
14. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
KWL
Assimilation
Concept maps
PQ4R
15. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
Assimilation
positive reinforcement
reticular activating system
primary reinforcement
16. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
The law of contiguity
Gardner's multiple intelligences
semantic memory
intrapersonal
17. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
egocentrism
the primacy effect
mnemonic devices
Mainstreaming
18. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
cognitive disequilibrium
extinction
mathemagenic effects
Hierarchical maps
19. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
Removal punishment
mathemagenic effects
formative assessment
norm-referenced testing
20. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
IDEA
spontaneous recovery
Removal punishment
HUD
21. Involving relations between people
KWL
interpersonal
Retroactive inhibition
the primacy effect
22. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
Elaboration rehearsal
Transductive reasoning
Sensory gating
Maintenance rehearsal
23. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
accommodation
Construct validity
semantic memory
positive reinforcement
24. (in classical conditioning) occurs when a previously conditioned stimulus (having been associated with an unconditioned stimulus) is presented in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus and thus fails to continue to elicit the unconditioned respons
The law of effect
extinction
empiricists
interpersonal-concordance
25. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
discrimination
didactic teaching
Intrinsic reinforcement
Removal punishment
26. Suggests that items which are listed first in a series are often stored most readily in memory - whereas the recency effect would suggest that the most recent - and therefore the items last on list - would be more readily remembered
mathemagenic effects
Transformative Multicultural education
the primacy effect
psychometric
27. Theory that proposes seven different components of intelligence: (1) Language ability - (2) logical-mathematical thinking - (3) spatial thinking - (4) musical thinking - (5) bodily kinesthetic thinking - (6) interpersonal thinking - (7) intrapersonal
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28. Occurs when one responds differently to similar stimuli - even in similar situations. In classical conditioning - the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
criterion-referenced testing
discrimination
spontaneous recovery
Hierarchical maps
29. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
Mager's three-part system
Transformative Multicultural education
spontaneous recovery
Elaboration rehearsal
30. Is a feature of the preoperational stage of development in which a child reasons neither inductively nor deductively - but reasons instead from particular to particular.
Transductive reasoning
Hierarchical maps
accommodation
KWL
31. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
Construct validity
Hierarchical maps
Retroactive inhibition
spontaneous recovery
32. A psychometric concept referring to the degree to which a test score is actually a legitimate indication of the skill - concept or attribute it purports to measure
Gardner's multiple intelligences
Construct validity
mathemagenic effects
Hierarchical maps
33. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
intrapersonal
formative assessment
norm-referenced testing
criterion-referenced testing
34. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
Construct validity
recency effect
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
PQ4R
35. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
criterion-referenced testing
Removal punishment
Maintenance rehearsal
Sensory gating
36. Memory of personal experiences
episodic memory
intrapersonal
semantic memory
cognitive disequilibrium
37. The process by which we filter irrelevant information from the flow of more pertinent incoming information. It allows us to block out of our focus and attention those things which we deem to be not important.
Sensory gating
overinclusive thinking
Mager's three-part system
episodic memory
38. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
Mager's three-part system
reticular activating system
mnemonic devices
intrapersonal
39. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
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40. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
Concept maps
Mainstreaming
procedural memory
The law of effect
41. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
mnemonic devices
criterion-referenced testing
primary reinforcement
Transductive reasoning
42. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
didactic teaching
intrapersonal
recency effect
egocentrism
43. A strategy for comprehension in which K stands for 'what do I know?' - W stands for 'what do I want to know?' - and L stands for 'what I learned or want to learn'
recency effect
interpersonal
The law of contiguity
KWL
44. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
Construct validity
spontaneous recovery
centration
reticular activating system
45. Is a written statement of educational planning and programming for an individual student. It states the present level of functioning - long- and short-term goals - services to be provided - and a timeline for goal achievement.
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
Transductive reasoning
schema
criterion-referenced testing
46. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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47. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.
the primacy effect
norm-referenced testing
PQ4R
empiricists
48. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
Assimilation
schema
personal fable
discrimination
49. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
empiricists
Assimilation
Concept maps
Social learning
50. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
centration
interpersonal
egocentrism
Social learning