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