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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






3. 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.






4. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts






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






6. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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






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






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






20. 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


21. Involving relations between people






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






23. (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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






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


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


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






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






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






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






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


43. 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.






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






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






46. 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'






47. 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.






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






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






50. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).