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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. 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.
personal fable
the primacy effect
Sensory gating
The law of contiguity
2. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
accommodation
didactic teaching
IDEA
HUD
3. 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
recency effect
semantic memory
Hierarchical maps
4. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
reticular activating system
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
episodic memory
extrinsic reinforcement
5. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
Intrinsic reinforcement
interpersonal
personal fable
criterion-referenced testing
6. 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.
IDEA
The law of contiguity
mnemonic devices
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
7. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
semantic memory
overinclusive thinking
Construct validity
norm-referenced testing
8. 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
egocentrism
the primacy effect
didactic teaching
Retroactive inhibition
9. (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
Premack principle
extinction
accommodation
schema
10. 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
personal fable
Maintenance rehearsal
IDEA
11. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
Assimilation
Mager's three-part system
Construct validity
Transductive reasoning
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
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13. 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
interpersonal
mnemonic devices
Social learning
14. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
empiricists
reticular activating system
negative reinforcement
Gardner's multiple intelligences
15. Memory of personal experiences
Premack principle
Removal punishment
episodic memory
Sensory gating
16. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
the primacy effect
procedural memory
reticular activating system
extinction
17. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
spontaneous recovery
schema
IDEA
Removal punishment
18. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
Gardner's multiple intelligences
spontaneous recovery
norm-referenced testing
formative assessment
19. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
negative reinforcement
Removal punishment
cognitive disequilibrium
Transformative Multicultural education
20. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
the primacy effect
Elaboration rehearsal
Intrinsic reinforcement
IDEA
21. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
Bloom's Taxonomy
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
Mainstreaming
recency effect
22. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
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23. Involving relations between people
didactic teaching
Construct validity
extrinsic reinforcement
interpersonal
24. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
assessment planning
semantic memory
empiricists
extinction
25. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
accommodation
norm-referenced testing
mnemonic devices
intrapersonal
26. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
Transformative Multicultural education
Concept maps
criterion-referenced testing
Elaboration rehearsal
27. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
IDEA
Gardner's multiple intelligences
interpersonal-concordance
empiricists
28. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
centration
Premack principle
Gardner's multiple intelligences
accommodation
29. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
interpersonal
discrimination
Social learning
recency effect
30. 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.
extrinsic reinforcement
The law of effect
egocentrism
norm-referenced testing
31. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
mnemonic devices
Retroactive inhibition
formative assessment
Concept maps
32. 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'
spontaneous recovery
KWL
didactic teaching
Removal punishment
33. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
personal fable
procedural memory
accommodation
empiricists
34. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
formative assessment
mnemonic devices
Maintenance rehearsal
Gardner's multiple intelligences
35. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Sensory gating
IDEA
Removal punishment
Gardner's multiple intelligences
36. 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
Mainstreaming
discrimination
Maintenance rehearsal
37. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
Retroactive inhibition
Elaboration rehearsal
negative reinforcement
Hierarchical maps
38. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
centration
Bloom's Taxonomy
Concept maps
egocentrism
39. 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.
KWL
episodic memory
Concept maps
discrimination
40. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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41. 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.
mathemagenic effects
The law of effect
Assimilation
Sensory gating
42. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
Premack principle
Concept maps
positive reinforcement
extrinsic reinforcement
43. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
episodic memory
negative reinforcement
extrinsic reinforcement
Hierarchical maps
44. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
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45. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
episodic memory
Hierarchical maps
primary reinforcement
The law of contiguity
46. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
mathemagenic effects
Sensory gating
intrapersonal
accommodation
47. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
The law of contiguity
Intrinsic reinforcement
Transductive reasoning
'g' factor
48. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
extrinsic reinforcement
didactic teaching
procedural memory
centration
49. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
The law of effect
formative assessment
overinclusive thinking
centration
50. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
procedural memory
PQ4R
The law of effect
empiricists