SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
Mainstreaming
discrimination
spontaneous recovery
formative assessment
2. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
primary reinforcement
egocentrism
'g' factor
extinction
3. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Mager's three-part system
Removal punishment
intrapersonal
interpersonal
4. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
Assimilation
the primacy effect
recency effect
Transformative Multicultural education
5. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
IDEA
interpersonal
negative reinforcement
norm-referenced testing
6. 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
extrinsic reinforcement
norm-referenced testing
PQ4R
Construct validity
7. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
accommodation
criterion-referenced testing
Maintenance rehearsal
Sensory gating
8. 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.
Removal punishment
discrimination
KWL
the primacy effect
9. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
Social learning
psychometric
Gardner's multiple intelligences
accommodation
10. Involving relations between people
overinclusive thinking
Transductive reasoning
episodic memory
interpersonal
11. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
recency effect
personal fable
'g' factor
intrapersonal
12. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
13. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
overinclusive thinking
mnemonic devices
primary reinforcement
Transductive reasoning
14. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
KWL
primary reinforcement
Concept maps
overinclusive thinking
15. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
Construct validity
Transductive reasoning
norm-referenced testing
mnemonic devices
16. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
Removal punishment
procedural memory
intrapersonal
Concept maps
17. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
primary reinforcement
Removal punishment
didactic teaching
extinction
18. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
extinction
Mainstreaming
negative reinforcement
assessment planning
19. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
extrinsic reinforcement
KWL
mathemagenic effects
Intrinsic reinforcement
20. 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
reticular activating system
PQ4R
HUD
21. 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
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
22. (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
formative assessment
negative reinforcement
Maintenance rehearsal
extinction
23. 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
negative reinforcement
Hierarchical maps
Social learning
Transformative Multicultural education
24. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
positive reinforcement
The law of contiguity
Bloom's Taxonomy
formative assessment
25. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
primary reinforcement
norm-referenced testing
semantic memory
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
assessment planning
The law of contiguity
Construct validity
Transformative Multicultural education
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.
Mainstreaming
interpersonal-concordance
Concept maps
Sensory gating
28. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
positive reinforcement
interpersonal
interpersonal-concordance
Premack principle
29. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
semantic memory
mathemagenic effects
Intrinsic reinforcement
Elaboration rehearsal
30. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
recency effect
assessment planning
spontaneous recovery
reticular activating system
31. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
Premack principle
Removal punishment
Maintenance rehearsal
episodic memory
32. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
33. 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.
Concept maps
The law of contiguity
semantic memory
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
34. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
overinclusive thinking
Hierarchical maps
mnemonic devices
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
35. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
Mainstreaming
extrinsic reinforcement
recency effect
PQ4R
36. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
extinction
overinclusive thinking
personal fable
PQ4R
37. Memory of personal experiences
episodic memory
HUD
extrinsic reinforcement
The law of contiguity
38. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
The law of effect
accommodation
schema
reticular activating system
39. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
Retroactive inhibition
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
the primacy effect
centration
40. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
Maintenance rehearsal
Assimilation
primary reinforcement
Mager's three-part system
41. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Transductive reasoning
egocentrism
Premack principle
Elaboration rehearsal
42. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Assimilation
extinction
positive reinforcement
IDEA
43. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
negative reinforcement
HUD
cognitive disequilibrium
extrinsic reinforcement
44. 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
Removal punishment
mnemonic devices
didactic teaching
45. 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.
Sensory gating
extrinsic reinforcement
Premack principle
Transductive reasoning
46. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
Maintenance rehearsal
interpersonal-concordance
procedural memory
47. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
48. 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'
reticular activating system
KWL
mnemonic devices
psychometric
49. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
criterion-referenced testing
cognitive disequilibrium
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
personal fable
50. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
Transductive reasoning
extinction
Concept maps
cognitive disequilibrium