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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.






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






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






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


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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






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






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






15. Involving relations between people






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






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






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






19. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Memory of personal experiences






25. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review






26. 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.






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






28. 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'






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






34. 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.






35. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts






36. 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






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






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






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






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


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






42. 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






43. 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.






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






46. 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






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






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


49. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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