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