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