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