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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
cognitive disequilibrium
mnemonic devices
positive reinforcement
The law of contiguity
2. 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
Bloom's Taxonomy
Sensory gating
intrapersonal
3. Involving relations between people
interpersonal
didactic teaching
Sensory gating
psychometric
4. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
Transformative Multicultural education
reticular activating system
empiricists
interpersonal
5. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
interpersonal-concordance
Elaboration rehearsal
Transformative Multicultural education
Social learning
6. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
intrapersonal
Maintenance rehearsal
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
interpersonal-concordance
7. 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
Construct validity
norm-referenced testing
semantic memory
schema
8. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
didactic teaching
Assimilation
primary reinforcement
negative reinforcement
9. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
reticular activating system
Gardner's multiple intelligences
norm-referenced testing
'g' factor
10. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
didactic teaching
The law of contiguity
formative assessment
'g' factor
11. 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
Transductive reasoning
intrapersonal
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
12. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Concept maps
Elaboration rehearsal
overinclusive thinking
mnemonic devices
13. (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
Mainstreaming
mnemonic devices
extinction
14. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
interpersonal-concordance
didactic teaching
The law of effect
overinclusive thinking
15. 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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16. 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.
discrimination
Social learning
Retroactive inhibition
cognitive disequilibrium
17. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
mnemonic devices
psychometric
spontaneous recovery
Maintenance rehearsal
18. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
cognitive disequilibrium
mnemonic devices
Construct validity
formative assessment
19. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
schema
Mager's three-part system
criterion-referenced testing
extinction
20. 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.
positive reinforcement
spontaneous recovery
centration
psychometric
21. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Removal punishment
interpersonal-concordance
personal fable
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
22. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
Maintenance rehearsal
the primacy effect
HUD
episodic memory
23. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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24. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
didactic teaching
extrinsic reinforcement
Transductive reasoning
accommodation
25. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
recency effect
PQ4R
reticular activating system
Bloom's Taxonomy
26. 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
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
PQ4R
Hierarchical maps
assessment planning
27. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
episodic memory
primary reinforcement
procedural memory
Mainstreaming
28. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
centration
positive reinforcement
didactic teaching
procedural memory
29. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
egocentrism
Social learning
IDEA
Maintenance rehearsal
30. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
Removal punishment
cognitive disequilibrium
personal fable
Sensory gating
31. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
mathemagenic effects
interpersonal-concordance
PQ4R
Transformative Multicultural education
32. 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
extrinsic reinforcement
Transformative Multicultural education
episodic memory
33. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
PQ4R
centration
Social learning
positive reinforcement
34. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
negative reinforcement
Concept maps
egocentrism
norm-referenced testing
35. 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
Hierarchical maps
Assimilation
recency effect
36. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Bloom's Taxonomy
discrimination
'g' factor
37. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
Removal punishment
centration
norm-referenced testing
formative assessment
38. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
negative reinforcement
schema
extinction
Mainstreaming
39. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
criterion-referenced testing
'g' factor
spontaneous recovery
recency effect
40. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
mnemonic devices
Retroactive inhibition
Social learning
The law of contiguity
41. 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'
KWL
Premack principle
didactic teaching
Removal punishment
42. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Intrinsic reinforcement
assessment planning
criterion-referenced testing
IDEA
43. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
recency effect
assessment planning
mnemonic devices
interpersonal-concordance
44. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
Intrinsic reinforcement
Premack principle
schema
Construct validity
45. 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.
negative reinforcement
intrapersonal
Intrinsic reinforcement
Transductive reasoning
46. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.
Assimilation
empiricists
norm-referenced testing
The law of contiguity
47. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
intrapersonal
empiricists
interpersonal-concordance
negative reinforcement
48. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
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49. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
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50. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
schema
centration
personal fable
procedural memory