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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. 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.
Construct validity
assessment planning
The law of contiguity
Sensory gating
2. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
Elaboration rehearsal
IDEA
negative reinforcement
the primacy effect
3. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Hierarchical maps
Gardner's multiple intelligences
KWL
IDEA
4. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Maintenance rehearsal
Retroactive inhibition
HUD
Transductive reasoning
5. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
schema
negative reinforcement
KWL
intrapersonal
6. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
Concept maps
'g' factor
overinclusive thinking
reticular activating system
7. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
personal fable
semantic memory
interpersonal-concordance
empiricists
8. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
Removal punishment
negative reinforcement
extrinsic reinforcement
Social learning
9. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
spontaneous recovery
intrapersonal
semantic memory
procedural memory
10. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
cognitive disequilibrium
IDEA
Retroactive inhibition
recency effect
11. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
the primacy effect
didactic teaching
mnemonic devices
Transformative Multicultural education
12. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
Transformative Multicultural education
KWL
Maintenance rehearsal
Intrinsic reinforcement
13. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
spontaneous recovery
Mainstreaming
primary reinforcement
centration
14. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
extrinsic reinforcement
Mainstreaming
psychometric
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
15. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
PQ4R
assessment planning
Elaboration rehearsal
discrimination
16. Involving relations between people
semantic memory
interpersonal
negative reinforcement
PQ4R
17. Memory of personal experiences
Mager's three-part system
Premack principle
Hierarchical maps
episodic memory
18. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
schema
Construct validity
The law of effect
norm-referenced testing
19. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
intrapersonal
Premack principle
centration
discrimination
20. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
norm-referenced testing
PQ4R
Sensory gating
interpersonal-concordance
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.
PQ4R
Assimilation
overinclusive thinking
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
22. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
reticular activating system
spontaneous recovery
Transductive reasoning
positive reinforcement
23. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
mathemagenic effects
personal fable
criterion-referenced testing
IDEA
24. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
spontaneous recovery
Mager's three-part system
Maintenance rehearsal
procedural memory
25. (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
extinction
The law of effect
norm-referenced testing
Transductive reasoning
26. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
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27. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
centration
mathemagenic effects
spontaneous recovery
reticular activating system
28. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Removal punishment
Mainstreaming
Gardner's multiple intelligences
cognitive disequilibrium
29. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
Intrinsic reinforcement
positive reinforcement
the primacy effect
Gardner's multiple intelligences
30. 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
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
episodic memory
Hierarchical maps
31. 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.
PQ4R
Gardner's multiple intelligences
The law of effect
negative reinforcement
32. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
extinction
personal fable
Mainstreaming
didactic teaching
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.
psychometric
Transformative Multicultural education
mnemonic devices
Social learning
34. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
Transformative Multicultural education
primary reinforcement
'g' factor
Intrinsic reinforcement
35. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
Retroactive inhibition
Social learning
primary reinforcement
The law of effect
36. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
mathemagenic effects
Premack principle
primary reinforcement
Assimilation
37. 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
Construct validity
psychometric
intrapersonal
38. 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
HUD
Construct validity
spontaneous recovery
Concept maps
39. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
extrinsic reinforcement
formative assessment
Mainstreaming
accommodation
40. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
recency effect
Transductive reasoning
cognitive disequilibrium
episodic memory
41. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
spontaneous recovery
didactic teaching
extinction
The law of effect
42. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
the primacy effect
extrinsic reinforcement
accommodation
centration
43. 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
criterion-referenced testing
assessment planning
empiricists
spontaneous recovery
44. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
Transformative Multicultural education
intrapersonal
criterion-referenced testing
discrimination
45. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
spontaneous recovery
Intrinsic reinforcement
Mainstreaming
empiricists
46. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
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47. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
positive reinforcement
the primacy effect
primary reinforcement
Assimilation
48. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
schema
centration
assessment planning
Concept maps
49. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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50. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
The law of effect
accommodation
PQ4R
procedural memory