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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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






5. 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.






6. 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






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






8. (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






9. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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'






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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


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


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






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






30. Involving relations between people






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






37. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review






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






39. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






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






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






42. 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






43. 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


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






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






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






47. 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.






48. Memory of personal experiences






49. 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






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