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