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