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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
PQ4R
accommodation
empiricists
primary reinforcement
2. 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
The law of effect
empiricists
Gardner's multiple intelligences
3. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Removal punishment
episodic memory
'g' factor
IDEA
4. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
mathemagenic effects
Transductive reasoning
intrapersonal
cognitive disequilibrium
5. 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
centration
interpersonal
KWL
6. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
Maintenance rehearsal
'g' factor
episodic memory
formative assessment
7. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
Elaboration rehearsal
mathemagenic effects
accommodation
Premack principle
8. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
Sensory gating
empiricists
procedural memory
criterion-referenced testing
9. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
procedural memory
primary reinforcement
Gardner's multiple intelligences
interpersonal
10. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
Assimilation
accommodation
procedural memory
schema
11. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
Intrinsic reinforcement
Gardner's multiple intelligences
PQ4R
centration
12. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
Transformative Multicultural education
Intrinsic reinforcement
primary reinforcement
The law of effect
13. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
The law of contiguity
Transformative Multicultural education
Bloom's Taxonomy
14. 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.
Construct validity
interpersonal-concordance
the primacy effect
discrimination
15. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
Sensory gating
schema
spontaneous recovery
semantic memory
16. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
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17. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
mathemagenic effects
empiricists
interpersonal
Elaboration rehearsal
18. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
egocentrism
the primacy effect
personal fable
negative reinforcement
19. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
formative assessment
The law of effect
extrinsic reinforcement
Transductive reasoning
20. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
primary reinforcement
personal fable
reticular activating system
Bloom's Taxonomy
21. (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
Construct validity
Assimilation
Elaboration rehearsal
extinction
22. 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
Mager's three-part system
Hierarchical maps
HUD
formative assessment
23. Memory of personal experiences
episodic memory
reticular activating system
egocentrism
mathemagenic effects
24. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
negative reinforcement
Social learning
cognitive disequilibrium
episodic memory
25. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
cognitive disequilibrium
Premack principle
procedural memory
Bloom's Taxonomy
26. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
Intrinsic reinforcement
interpersonal-concordance
interpersonal
'g' factor
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.
Maintenance rehearsal
cognitive disequilibrium
IDEA
Transductive reasoning
28. 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
extinction
Bloom's Taxonomy
Intrinsic reinforcement
29. 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)
spontaneous recovery
Hierarchical maps
mnemonic devices
30. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
negative reinforcement
extrinsic reinforcement
'g' factor
mnemonic devices
31. 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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32. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
accommodation
overinclusive thinking
egocentrism
The law of contiguity
33. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
overinclusive thinking
IDEA
the primacy effect
recency effect
34. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
extrinsic reinforcement
Hierarchical maps
spontaneous recovery
personal fable
35. Involving relations between people
episodic memory
overinclusive thinking
interpersonal
centration
36. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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37. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
Removal punishment
Bloom's Taxonomy
empiricists
personal fable
38. 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.
criterion-referenced testing
procedural memory
The law of effect
formative assessment
39. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
didactic teaching
reticular activating system
accommodation
Intrinsic reinforcement
40. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
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41. 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
the primacy effect
assessment planning
mathemagenic effects
schema
42. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
didactic teaching
semantic memory
Construct validity
discrimination
43. 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.
Sensory gating
Removal punishment
Mainstreaming
schema
44. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
criterion-referenced testing
Construct validity
negative reinforcement
Assimilation
45. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
didactic teaching
recency effect
Social learning
Retroactive inhibition
46. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
reticular activating system
negative reinforcement
HUD
didactic teaching
47. 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
criterion-referenced testing
Social learning
Sensory gating
Construct validity
48. 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.
KWL
psychometric
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
mathemagenic effects
49. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
centration
psychometric
primary reinforcement
Mainstreaming
50. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
semantic memory
schema
criterion-referenced testing
overinclusive thinking