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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
recency effect
cognitive disequilibrium
HUD
Gardner's multiple intelligences
2. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
Concept maps
didactic teaching
formative assessment
primary reinforcement
3. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
discrimination
Gardner's multiple intelligences
accommodation
negative reinforcement
4. (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
extinction
Concept maps
episodic memory
spontaneous recovery
5. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
formative assessment
Intrinsic reinforcement
the primacy effect
mnemonic devices
6. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
Retroactive inhibition
extinction
Gardner's multiple intelligences
empiricists
7. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
personal fable
criterion-referenced testing
mathemagenic effects
HUD
8. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
reticular activating system
Mainstreaming
norm-referenced testing
cognitive disequilibrium
9. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
spontaneous recovery
Assimilation
psychometric
negative reinforcement
10. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
Construct validity
Social learning
assessment planning
positive reinforcement
11. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Gardner's multiple intelligences
Concept maps
Elaboration rehearsal
formative assessment
12. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
centration
Retroactive inhibition
Intrinsic reinforcement
negative reinforcement
13. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
The law of contiguity
mathemagenic effects
didactic teaching
HUD
14. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
Intrinsic reinforcement
Elaboration rehearsal
recency effect
Transformative Multicultural education
15. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
Construct validity
schema
'g' factor
assessment planning
16. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
'g' factor
semantic memory
Mainstreaming
Transductive reasoning
17. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
egocentrism
'g' factor
overinclusive thinking
centration
18. Memory of personal experiences
episodic memory
interpersonal
Transductive reasoning
Intrinsic reinforcement
19. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
Premack principle
egocentrism
accommodation
schema
20. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
Elaboration rehearsal
egocentrism
episodic memory
interpersonal-concordance
21. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
Sensory gating
empiricists
spontaneous recovery
Retroactive inhibition
22. 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.
Bloom's Taxonomy
PQ4R
psychometric
Assimilation
23. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
Maintenance rehearsal
Transformative Multicultural education
semantic memory
HUD
24. 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
25. 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.
Hierarchical maps
recency effect
The law of contiguity
spontaneous recovery
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
PQ4R
primary reinforcement
Mainstreaming
the primacy effect
27. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
reticular activating system
egocentrism
Mainstreaming
centration
28. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
the primacy effect
Construct validity
criterion-referenced testing
Assimilation
29. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.
empiricists
intrapersonal
Maintenance rehearsal
Sensory gating
30. 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
PQ4R
Construct validity
extrinsic reinforcement
Elaboration rehearsal
31. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
IDEA
interpersonal-concordance
Mager's three-part system
Sensory gating
32. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
overinclusive thinking
recency effect
episodic memory
schema
33. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
Mainstreaming
procedural memory
Concept maps
Bloom's Taxonomy
34. 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.
The law of effect
Intrinsic reinforcement
schema
recency effect
35. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
didactic teaching
extinction
PQ4R
Removal punishment
36. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
The law of contiguity
Social learning
Premack principle
Hierarchical maps
37. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
empiricists
positive reinforcement
Hierarchical maps
spontaneous recovery
38. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
39. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
KWL
mnemonic devices
personal fable
Removal punishment
40. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
Mainstreaming
personal fable
Transformative Multicultural education
centration
41. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
overinclusive thinking
formative assessment
semantic memory
extrinsic reinforcement
42. 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.
spontaneous recovery
discrimination
Premack principle
Retroactive inhibition
43. 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
discrimination
criterion-referenced testing
assessment planning
KWL
44. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
45. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
assessment planning
the primacy effect
didactic teaching
'g' factor
46. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
cognitive disequilibrium
mnemonic devices
spontaneous recovery
Transformative Multicultural education
47. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
positive reinforcement
procedural memory
Hierarchical maps
schema
48. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
assessment planning
Mainstreaming
Removal punishment
reticular activating system
49. 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.
primary reinforcement
The law of contiguity
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
episodic memory
50. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
interpersonal
Assimilation
the primacy effect
Intrinsic reinforcement