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