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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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1. 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.






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






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






4. (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






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






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






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






8. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.






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






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






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






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


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






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






24. 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






25. 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'






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


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






28. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






41. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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