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