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