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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
Transformative Multicultural education
procedural memory
mathemagenic effects
Gardner's multiple intelligences
2. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
episodic memory
spontaneous recovery
empiricists
egocentrism
3. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
Bloom's Taxonomy
mnemonic devices
criterion-referenced testing
Assimilation
4. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
discrimination
Removal punishment
negative reinforcement
semantic memory
5. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
6. 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.
centration
intrapersonal
The law of contiguity
empiricists
7. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
negative reinforcement
PQ4R
HUD
'g' factor
8. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
reticular activating system
IDEA
overinclusive thinking
Maintenance rehearsal
9. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
didactic teaching
accommodation
Sensory gating
personal fable
10. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
schema
interpersonal
primary reinforcement
personal fable
11. 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.
semantic memory
Sensory gating
Retroactive inhibition
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
12. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
extrinsic reinforcement
overinclusive thinking
PQ4R
Retroactive inhibition
13. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
procedural memory
intrapersonal
primary reinforcement
overinclusive thinking
14. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
intrapersonal
interpersonal
Maintenance rehearsal
empiricists
15. Memory of personal experiences
assessment planning
episodic memory
Intrinsic reinforcement
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
16. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
mathemagenic effects
discrimination
extinction
Removal punishment
17. 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.
accommodation
norm-referenced testing
Transductive reasoning
Removal punishment
18. 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
Retroactive inhibition
negative reinforcement
discrimination
Construct validity
19. Involving relations between people
The law of effect
discrimination
Bloom's Taxonomy
interpersonal
20. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
mnemonic devices
recency effect
Mager's three-part system
positive reinforcement
21. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Elaboration rehearsal
Bloom's Taxonomy
Assimilation
intrapersonal
22. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
schema
discrimination
psychometric
formative assessment
23. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
extinction
Hierarchical maps
personal fable
Assimilation
24. 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.
The law of effect
'g' factor
reticular activating system
accommodation
25. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
psychometric
the primacy effect
procedural memory
egocentrism
26. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
extinction
The law of contiguity
The law of effect
overinclusive thinking
27. 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.
reticular activating system
discrimination
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
egocentrism
28. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
Premack principle
mathemagenic effects
centration
PQ4R
29. 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
procedural memory
PQ4R
Hierarchical maps
overinclusive thinking
30. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
Intrinsic reinforcement
semantic memory
PQ4R
Transductive reasoning
31. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
Maintenance rehearsal
mathemagenic effects
intrapersonal
'g' factor
32. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
33. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
norm-referenced testing
personal fable
Social learning
procedural memory
34. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
extrinsic reinforcement
reticular activating system
negative reinforcement
'g' factor
35. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
cognitive disequilibrium
extinction
Concept maps
accommodation
36. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.
empiricists
primary reinforcement
Transformative Multicultural education
norm-referenced testing
37. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
egocentrism
accommodation
semantic memory
positive reinforcement
38. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
39. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
schema
PQ4R
Transformative Multicultural education
centration
40. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Mager's three-part system
KWL
The law of effect
accommodation
41. 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
42. 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.
IDEA
Sensory gating
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
Intrinsic reinforcement
43. 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'
criterion-referenced testing
discrimination
KWL
negative reinforcement
44. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
KWL
Mainstreaming
Gardner's multiple intelligences
cognitive disequilibrium
45. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
formative assessment
norm-referenced testing
psychometric
mathemagenic effects
46. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
Intrinsic reinforcement
Transformative Multicultural education
reticular activating system
interpersonal-concordance
47. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
discrimination
primary reinforcement
Sensory gating
schema
48. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
extrinsic reinforcement
Hierarchical maps
procedural memory
interpersonal-concordance
49. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
Transformative Multicultural education
reticular activating system
Bloom's Taxonomy
The law of contiguity
50. (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
IDEA
Transductive reasoning
extinction
intrapersonal