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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Memory of personal experiences
recency effect
episodic memory
semantic memory
Mager's three-part system
2. (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
discrimination
extinction
primary reinforcement
interpersonal
3. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
norm-referenced testing
Concept maps
Elaboration rehearsal
The law of effect
4. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
PQ4R
Elaboration rehearsal
Mainstreaming
interpersonal-concordance
5. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
Gardner's multiple intelligences
cognitive disequilibrium
Sensory gating
reticular activating system
6. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
7. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
procedural memory
mathemagenic effects
Transductive reasoning
Premack principle
8. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
semantic memory
interpersonal-concordance
'g' factor
discrimination
9. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
10. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
egocentrism
episodic memory
Premack principle
extinction
11. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Premack principle
Hierarchical maps
IDEA
Sensory gating
12. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
Intrinsic reinforcement
Construct validity
centration
Mainstreaming
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.
The law of effect
reticular activating system
mnemonic devices
schema
14. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
the primacy effect
Removal punishment
personal fable
15. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
recency effect
Mainstreaming
Assimilation
extinction
16. 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.
procedural memory
discrimination
assessment planning
Concept maps
17. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
Mainstreaming
extrinsic reinforcement
schema
empiricists
18. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
egocentrism
extrinsic reinforcement
Transformative Multicultural education
episodic memory
19. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
The law of effect
Construct validity
criterion-referenced testing
20. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
criterion-referenced testing
positive reinforcement
the primacy effect
21. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
recency effect
Intrinsic reinforcement
positive reinforcement
The law of contiguity
22. 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
Hierarchical maps
HUD
accommodation
criterion-referenced testing
23. Involving relations between people
interpersonal
assessment planning
Sensory gating
spontaneous recovery
24. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Transformative Multicultural education
Elaboration rehearsal
'g' factor
assessment planning
25. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
Retroactive inhibition
norm-referenced testing
PQ4R
didactic teaching
26. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Intrinsic reinforcement
The law of effect
Removal punishment
semantic memory
27. 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
Mager's three-part system
accommodation
Removal punishment
28. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
HUD
IDEA
formative assessment
Mainstreaming
29. 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.
KWL
recency effect
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
overinclusive thinking
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
Transductive reasoning
Construct validity
formative assessment
negative reinforcement
31. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
schema
interpersonal
PQ4R
semantic memory
32. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
KWL
Retroactive inhibition
accommodation
Removal punishment
33. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
accommodation
Social learning
extinction
overinclusive thinking
34. 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.
empiricists
didactic teaching
accommodation
psychometric
35. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
Bloom's Taxonomy
psychometric
recency effect
extrinsic reinforcement
36. 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
psychometric
extinction
assessment planning
Transductive reasoning
37. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
recency effect
primary reinforcement
Intrinsic reinforcement
centration
38. 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
Retroactive inhibition
Assimilation
the primacy effect
interpersonal-concordance
39. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
Social learning
mathemagenic effects
Gardner's multiple intelligences
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
40. 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 primacy effect
Concept maps
The law of contiguity
IDEA
41. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
recency effect
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
Concept maps
reticular activating system
42. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
spontaneous recovery
didactic teaching
interpersonal
semantic memory
43. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
procedural memory
Hierarchical maps
Transformative Multicultural education
IDEA
44. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
spontaneous recovery
recency effect
Assimilation
interpersonal-concordance
45. 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'
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
egocentrism
KWL
the primacy effect
46. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
cognitive disequilibrium
Maintenance rehearsal
PQ4R
Removal punishment
47. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
KWL
Bloom's Taxonomy
personal fable
48. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
Transformative Multicultural education
empiricists
norm-referenced testing
reticular activating system
49. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
empiricists
procedural memory
intrapersonal
Retroactive inhibition
50. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
mnemonic devices
personal fable
Assimilation
the primacy effect