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CLEP Intro To Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem - neglecting other important aspects.

2. 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

3. 6 step active approach to learning by psychologist Francis P. Robinson - preview - question - read - reflect - recite - review

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. 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

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

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. (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

19. Involving relations between people

20. 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.

21. Considering extraneous information while making a decision

22. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

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

24. Relating things to preexisting knowledge

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