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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






8. 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






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






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






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


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






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






14. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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'






20. 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


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






22. Involving relations between people






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






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






35. (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






36. Memory of personal experiences






37. 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.






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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