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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. 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.
Intrinsic reinforcement
The law of effect
Mainstreaming
egocentrism
2. Memory of personal experiences
procedural memory
egocentrism
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
episodic memory
3. Occurs when unacceptable behaviors are immediately followed by the removal of a desired stimulus.
Removal punishment
Elaboration rehearsal
norm-referenced testing
interpersonal-concordance
4. 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
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5. Involving a person's knowledge or feelings about themselves - relating to a person's inner self
KWL
intrapersonal
norm-referenced testing
Social learning
6. Is a process of keeping information active in short-term memory by repeating the information to ourselves.
criterion-referenced testing
Bloom's Taxonomy
Maintenance rehearsal
Hierarchical maps
7. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review
episodic memory
HUD
interpersonal
PQ4R
8. Increasing behaviors by presenting positive stimuli - such as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that - when presented after a response - strengthens the response.
personal fable
positive reinforcement
extrinsic reinforcement
'g' factor
9. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
schema
intrapersonal
Bloom's Taxonomy
HUD
10. Visual diagrams which utilize graphic and hierarchical structures and linking phrases to add insight into the interconnectedness of concepts and sub-concepts.
Concept maps
didactic teaching
extinction
discrimination
11. Considering extraneous information while making a decision
mathemagenic effects
Mainstreaming
overinclusive thinking
didactic teaching
12. 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.
psychometric
procedural memory
spontaneous recovery
egocentrism
13. Relating things to preexisting knowledge
psychometric
Elaboration rehearsal
negative reinforcement
personal fable
14. That which is delivered externally (such as stickers - words of praise - or candy).
cognitive disequilibrium
assessment planning
'g' factor
extrinsic reinforcement
15. 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
Hierarchical maps
interpersonal
negative reinforcement
Elaboration rehearsal
16. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.
Intrinsic reinforcement
centration
mnemonic devices
interpersonal
17. Kohlberg's stage of moral development; is when moral/ethical decisions are based on what pleases - helps - or is approved by others.
Elaboration rehearsal
cognitive disequilibrium
Removal punishment
interpersonal-concordance
18. Memory aids - especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
Construct validity
cognitive disequilibrium
IDEA
mnemonic devices
19. For Piaget - was a mental network for organizing concepts and information.
cognitive disequilibrium
criterion-referenced testing
schema
Retroactive inhibition
20. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
cognitive disequilibrium
IDEA
KWL
schema
21. Piaget's term for the process of making sense of an experience or perception by fitting it into previously established cognitive structures (schemas).
'g' factor
negative reinforcement
Retroactive inhibition
Assimilation
22. 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
PQ4R
assessment planning
Social learning
Removal punishment
23. 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'
'g' factor
Social learning
KWL
PQ4R
24. Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information
procedural memory
assessment planning
Retroactive inhibition
didactic teaching
25. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs
reticular activating system
negative reinforcement
The law of effect
Construct validity
26. Testing in which scores are compared with the average performance of others
interpersonal-concordance
primary reinforcement
norm-referenced testing
Maintenance rehearsal
27. The midbrain's neurological system that alerts us to novel stimuli - in this case the loud - sudden noise.
Removal punishment
Maintenance rehearsal
reticular activating system
Elaboration rehearsal
28. The reappearance - after a pause - of an extinguished conditioned response
spontaneous recovery
Social learning
centration
primary reinforcement
29. Something that is naturally reinforcing - such as food (if you are hungary) - warmth (if you are cold) - and water (if you are thirsty)
didactic teaching
primary reinforcement
formative assessment
mathemagenic effects
30. SPEARMAN'S term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree
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31. Is the process in which students with special needs spend part of the school day integrated with students in general education classes.
Mainstreaming
Assimilation
procedural memory
Transformative Multicultural education
32. Helps us recall particular skills or steps for accomplishing a task.
Elaboration rehearsal
recency effect
Construct validity
procedural memory
33. 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.
Hierarchical maps
PQ4R
psychometric
Sensory gating
34. Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Transductive reasoning
Elaboration rehearsal
accommodation
empiricists
35. Common belief among adolescents that their feelings and experiences cannot possibly be understood by others and that they are personally invulnerable to harm
Gardner's multiple intelligences
procedural memory
personal fable
negative reinforcement
36. 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.
Transformative Multicultural education
cognitive disequilibrium
discrimination
the primacy effect
37. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
centration
norm-referenced testing
semantic memory
mnemonic devices
38. In Piaget's theory - the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
egocentrism
positive reinforcement
extinction
mathemagenic effects
39. Employs preferred or high frequency behaviors as reinforcement for the performance of a less preferred and thus lower frequency behavior.
Retroactive inhibition
interpersonal-concordance
Premack principle
formative assessment
40. 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
Premack principle
Removal punishment
the primacy effect
Construct validity
41. Promotes teaching which focuses on the value of diversity.
discrimination
overinclusive thinking
primary reinforcement
Transformative Multicultural education
42. Believe that teachers - and others - are essential to construction. There is no 'pure' discovery-only discovery mediated by others.
empiricists
The law of effect
Concept maps
Retroactive inhibition
43. Involves an organized classroom - an effective and clearly understood behavior management system - and a flexible and creative curriculum.
discrimination
Removal punishment
Concept maps
didactic teaching
44. 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.
Transductive reasoning
reticular activating system
interpersonal-concordance
The law of contiguity
45. Involving relations between people
mathemagenic effects
assessment planning
interpersonal
KWL
46. Stipulates that a well-written objective include performance - conditions of performance - and criteria for achievement.
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47. 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.
The law of effect
personal fable
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
positive reinforcement
48. There are six categories of cognitive objectives organized by complexity: Knowledge - Comprehension - Application - Analysis - Synthesis - Evaluation.
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49. Provides information about student knowledge and performance relative to a pre-established standard within a specific - well-defined content domain
centration
criterion-referenced testing
egocentrism
Maintenance rehearsal
50. Consider what students do to facilitate their own learning - noting especially their organizing and structuring strategies.
KWL
mathemagenic effects
Concept maps
Transformative Multicultural education