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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
empiricists
accommodation
Bloom's Taxonomy
intrapersonal
2. 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
the primacy effect
didactic teaching
Assimilation
extrinsic reinforcement
3. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
didactic teaching
semantic memory
egocentrism
PQ4R
4. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
spontaneous recovery
didactic teaching
discrimination
procedural memory
5. Concept and attributes arranged in a hierarchial pattern and typically constructed in a descending order or importance. Relationships are identified between and among a concepts and its attributes
Hierarchical maps
PQ4R
the primacy effect
semantic memory
6. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
reticular activating system
Social learning
recency effect
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
7. 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.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Transductive reasoning
Concept maps
Sensory gating
8. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
reticular activating system
interpersonal-concordance
Retroactive inhibition
Intrinsic reinforcement
9. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
Retroactive inhibition
cognitive disequilibrium
extrinsic reinforcement
schema
10. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
schema
overinclusive thinking
criterion-referenced testing
recency effect
11. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
Maintenance rehearsal
recency effect
norm-referenced testing
Concept maps
12. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
Transductive reasoning
extinction
spontaneous recovery
Mager's three-part system
13. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
Sensory gating
didactic teaching
Intrinsic reinforcement
'g' factor
14. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Elaboration rehearsal
intrapersonal
overinclusive thinking
primary reinforcement
15. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
Elaboration rehearsal
criterion-referenced testing
Construct validity
reticular activating system
16. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
extinction
Transformative Multicultural education
The law of effect
spontaneous recovery
17. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
spontaneous recovery
episodic memory
procedural memory
mnemonic devices
18. 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.
discrimination
The law of contiguity
PQ4R
The law of effect
19. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
spontaneous recovery
empiricists
egocentrism
Removal punishment
20. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
interpersonal-concordance
recency effect
interpersonal
The law of effect
21. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
positive reinforcement
Mainstreaming
interpersonal-concordance
KWL
22. 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.
Hierarchical maps
overinclusive thinking
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
The law of contiguity
23. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
mathemagenic effects
Assimilation
Sensory gating
PQ4R
24. 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.
'g' factor
Transductive reasoning
primary reinforcement
interpersonal-concordance
25. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
Gardner's multiple intelligences
spontaneous recovery
intrapersonal
procedural memory
26. 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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27. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
procedural memory
IDEA
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
interpersonal-concordance
28. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
spontaneous recovery
Premack principle
schema
norm-referenced testing
29. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
centration
Construct validity
Removal punishment
Assimilation
30. 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.
negative reinforcement
psychometric
Premack principle
centration
31. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
Assimilation
Elaboration rehearsal
didactic teaching
extrinsic reinforcement
32. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
recency effect
Mainstreaming
Maintenance rehearsal
egocentrism
33. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
egocentrism
The law of effect
interpersonal
PQ4R
34. 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.
semantic memory
Sensory gating
The law of contiguity
discrimination
35. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
norm-referenced testing
HUD
Mainstreaming
formative assessment
36. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
reticular activating system
Removal punishment
schema
mnemonic devices
37. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
spontaneous recovery
positive reinforcement
intrapersonal
Maintenance rehearsal
38. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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39. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
the primacy effect
discrimination
positive reinforcement
primary reinforcement
40. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.
empiricists
discrimination
schema
recency effect
41. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
Mainstreaming
IDEA
Removal punishment
Concept maps
42. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
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43. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
mathemagenic effects
KWL
Bloom's Taxonomy
egocentrism
44. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
criterion-referenced testing
mnemonic devices
Construct validity
Retroactive inhibition
45. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
extinction
HUD
Premack principle
recency effect
46. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
KWL
spontaneous recovery
IDEA
semantic memory
47. 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'
mathemagenic effects
interpersonal-concordance
Concept maps
KWL
48. 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
semantic memory
personal fable
episodic memory
assessment planning
49. Involving relations between people
Premack principle
cognitive disequilibrium
interpersonal
egocentrism
50. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
negative reinforcement
Retroactive inhibition
Gardner's multiple intelligences
extrinsic reinforcement