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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






6. Memory of personal experiences






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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.






15. Involving relations between people






16. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






17. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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


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






20. 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.






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


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






23. 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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review






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


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






48. 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






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






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