Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.






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.






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. Involving relations between people






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.


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






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






27. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






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






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


37. 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.






38. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






39. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






40. Memory of personal experiences






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. 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.