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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. 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)
spontaneous recovery
reticular activating system
criterion-referenced testing
2. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
schema
Sensory gating
procedural memory
Transformative Multicultural education
3. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.
recency effect
Assimilation
Gardner's multiple intelligences
empiricists
4. 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.
formative assessment
extinction
discrimination
Hierarchical maps
5. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
The law of contiguity
Intrinsic reinforcement
mnemonic devices
semantic memory
6. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
spontaneous recovery
reticular activating system
Construct validity
egocentrism
7. Involving relations between people
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
interpersonal
criterion-referenced testing
schema
8. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
egocentrism
HUD
primary reinforcement
criterion-referenced testing
9. 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.
The law of contiguity
positive reinforcement
mathemagenic effects
Transformative Multicultural education
10. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
IDEA
'g' factor
Transductive reasoning
overinclusive thinking
11. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
Transductive reasoning
formative assessment
positive reinforcement
semantic memory
12. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
extrinsic reinforcement
primary reinforcement
Removal punishment
Bloom's Taxonomy
13. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
HUD
extinction
Transformative Multicultural education
accommodation
14. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
cognitive disequilibrium
Bloom's Taxonomy
extrinsic reinforcement
KWL
15. 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.
psychometric
The law of effect
Maintenance rehearsal
Bloom's Taxonomy
16. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
the primacy effect
Mainstreaming
discrimination
didactic teaching
17. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
Maintenance rehearsal
'g' factor
spontaneous recovery
Bloom's Taxonomy
18. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
PQ4R
primary reinforcement
Retroactive inhibition
The law of effect
19. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
Gardner's multiple intelligences
empiricists
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
recency effect
20. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
accommodation
personal fable
intrapersonal
formative assessment
21. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
episodic memory
psychometric
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
Removal punishment
22. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
formative assessment
Premack principle
criterion-referenced testing
semantic memory
23. 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
psychometric
extinction
Hierarchical maps
interpersonal
24. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
Social learning
norm-referenced testing
mathemagenic effects
spontaneous recovery
25. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
intrapersonal
accommodation
criterion-referenced testing
positive reinforcement
26. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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27. 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
negative reinforcement
PQ4R
extrinsic reinforcement
assessment planning
28. 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
Sensory gating
didactic teaching
episodic memory
29. 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
Mager's three-part system
the primacy effect
egocentrism
Sensory gating
30. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
negative reinforcement
Retroactive inhibition
criterion-referenced testing
Social learning
31. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
overinclusive thinking
semantic memory
mathemagenic effects
centration
32. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
Retroactive inhibition
intrapersonal
personal fable
reticular activating system
33. 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.
HUD
centration
Mainstreaming
Transductive reasoning
34. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
Removal punishment
norm-referenced testing
semantic memory
Assimilation
35. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Elaboration rehearsal
positive reinforcement
IDEA
recency effect
36. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
Transductive reasoning
Sensory gating
interpersonal
semantic memory
37. 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.
accommodation
assessment planning
semantic memory
psychometric
38. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
episodic memory
positive reinforcement
formative assessment
Concept maps
39. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
episodic memory
norm-referenced testing
Social learning
cognitive disequilibrium
40. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
episodic memory
interpersonal-concordance
mnemonic devices
interpersonal
41. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
mathemagenic effects
the primacy effect
negative reinforcement
Concept maps
42. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
The law of contiguity
discrimination
criterion-referenced testing
positive reinforcement
43. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
HUD
intrapersonal
extinction
episodic memory
44. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
empiricists
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
accommodation
assessment planning
45. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
assessment planning
didactic teaching
spontaneous recovery
Construct validity
46. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
Retroactive inhibition
Assimilation
PQ4R
interpersonal
47. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
Intrinsic reinforcement
episodic memory
recency effect
overinclusive thinking
48. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
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49. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
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50. Memory of personal experiences
episodic memory
the primacy effect
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
Elaboration rehearsal