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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.






2. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.






3. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. (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






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






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






13. 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'






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






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






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






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






18. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review






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






20. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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


22. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain






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






24. Involving relations between people






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Memory of personal experiences






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






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


35. 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.






36. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.






48. 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.






49. 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


50. 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