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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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1. 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






2. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.






3. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self






4. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.






5. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.






6. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.






7. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)






8. Memory of personal experiences






9. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development






10. 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






11. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.






12. 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


13. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices






14. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.


15. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.






16. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree


17. 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.






18. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.






19. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.






20. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.






21. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.






22. 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.






23. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.






24. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm






25. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts






26. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding






27. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain






28. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response






29. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.






30. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)






31. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.






32. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information






33. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).






34. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review






35. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching






36. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






37. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others






38. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.






39. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.


40. Involving relations between people






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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.






44. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.






45. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






46. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






47. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information






48. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs






49. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view






50. (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