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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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


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






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






9. 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






10. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. (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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






30. 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'






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






39. 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






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






41. 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.






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






43. Involving relations between people






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






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






46. Memory of personal experiences






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






48. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






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






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