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