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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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


3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. Involving relations between people






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






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






11. 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






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


13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. Considering extraneous information while making a decision






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






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






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






21. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act






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






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






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






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






26. Relating things to preexisting knowledge






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. Memory of personal experiences






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






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






34. (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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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


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






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






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






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


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






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






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






49. 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.






50. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review