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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
2. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
centration
The law of contiguity
Transformative Multicultural education
personal fable
3. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
semantic memory
Maintenance rehearsal
norm-referenced testing
Elaboration rehearsal
4. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
Assimilation
criterion-referenced testing
Removal punishment
spontaneous recovery
5. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
Concept maps
Transductive reasoning
psychometric
Bloom's Taxonomy
6. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
didactic teaching
discrimination
Retroactive inhibition
mnemonic devices
7. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
The law of contiguity
formative assessment
KWL
reticular activating system
8. Memory of personal experiences
episodic memory
KWL
Removal punishment
Maintenance rehearsal
9. 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.
personal fable
The law of effect
mnemonic devices
accommodation
10. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
Elaboration rehearsal
spontaneous recovery
Mainstreaming
interpersonal-concordance
11. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
positive reinforcement
procedural memory
schema
Mainstreaming
12. (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
Transformative Multicultural education
norm-referenced testing
extinction
semantic memory
13. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Construct validity
Transformative Multicultural education
Concept maps
HUD
14. The tendency to show greater memory for information that comes last in a sequence.
centration
semantic memory
the primacy effect
recency effect
15. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
Transductive reasoning
interpersonal-concordance
mathemagenic effects
centration
16. 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'
KWL
Mager's three-part system
Gardner's multiple intelligences
'g' factor
17. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
mathemagenic effects
semantic memory
accommodation
Maintenance rehearsal
18. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
discrimination
interpersonal-concordance
Intrinsic reinforcement
Gardner's multiple intelligences
19. 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
The law of contiguity
didactic teaching
IDEA
20. Piaget's term for when a new experience or idea does not fit a person's existing understanding
Gardner's multiple intelligences
didactic teaching
intrapersonal
cognitive disequilibrium
21. 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
22. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
mnemonic devices
norm-referenced testing
HUD
PQ4R
23. 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
formative assessment
The law of effect
empiricists
Construct validity
24. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
25. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Mager's three-part system
mnemonic devices
positive reinforcement
26. 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.
Mainstreaming
schema
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
accommodation
27. Involving relations between people
interpersonal
mnemonic devices
positive reinforcement
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
28. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
HUD
schema
Bloom's Taxonomy
spontaneous recovery
29. 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.
Hierarchical maps
primary reinforcement
The law of contiguity
Sensory gating
30. Theory hypothesizes that a child's speech results from modeling - imitation - reinforcement and feedback.
interpersonal
Social learning
norm-referenced testing
Removal punishment
31. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
centration
extinction
The law of effect
psychometric
32. 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.
discrimination
negative reinforcement
Sensory gating
centration
33. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
The law of contiguity
didactic teaching
schema
spontaneous recovery
34. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Removal punishment
egocentrism
Intrinsic reinforcement
Elaboration rehearsal
35. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
interpersonal
criterion-referenced testing
discrimination
primary reinforcement
36. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
Gardner's multiple intelligences
psychometric
The law of effect
intrapersonal
37. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
Assimilation
Mainstreaming
Gardner's multiple intelligences
Transformative Multicultural education
38. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
discrimination
the primacy effect
Retroactive inhibition
assessment planning
39. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
40. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
formative assessment
overinclusive thinking
criterion-referenced testing
'g' factor
41. That which is delivered internally (such as a sense of accomplishment - or well being)
The law of effect
interpersonal-concordance
Intrinsic reinforcement
didactic teaching
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
Removal punishment
egocentrism
Hierarchical maps
mathemagenic effects
43. 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.
Social learning
psychometric
assessment planning
extrinsic reinforcement
44. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
semantic memory
primary reinforcement
mnemonic devices
procedural memory
45. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
discrimination
Gardner's multiple intelligences
cognitive disequilibrium
formative assessment
46. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
empiricists
HUD
norm-referenced testing
extrinsic reinforcement
47. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Transductive reasoning
schema
IDEA
procedural memory
48. 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
Hierarchical maps
empiricists
the primacy effect
overinclusive thinking
49. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
overinclusive thinking
formative assessment
Elaboration rehearsal
negative reinforcement
50. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
episodic memory
mnemonic devices
accommodation
procedural memory