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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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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






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






10. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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






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






13. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.






14. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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.






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






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.






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






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






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






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






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.






31. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).






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






33. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review






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.






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






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






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






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)






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






41. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.






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.






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






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






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






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'






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






49. Involving relations between people






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