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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Memory of personal experiences






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






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






6. 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.






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






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


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






32. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. (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






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






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






42. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






43. 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'






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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.






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