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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. A person's interpretation of stimuli
secondary reinforcer
perception
content integration
vicarious learning
2. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
multiple intelligences
schemata
group contingencies
positive correlation
3. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards
untracking
imagery
antecedent stimuli
retroactive inhibition
4. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
calling order
equity pedagogy
maintenance
enactment
5. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
educational psychology
randomized field experiment
mental set
adaptation
6. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
positive correlation
learning goals
discrimination
cues
7. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
motivation
regrouping
wait time
trust vs. mistrust
8. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
compensatory preschool programs
identity diffusion
schemes
metacognitive skills
9. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)
self-regulation
constructivist theories of learning
self-regulation
cooperative scripting
10. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
independent practice
secondary reinforcer
foreclosure
mediated learning
11. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
neutral stimuli
outlining
content integration
criterion-references interpretations
12. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
negative correlation
preoperational stage
pegword method
prosocial behaviors
13. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others
formative evaluation
paired-associate learning
self-regulation
content evidence
14. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
egocentric
bilingual education
initial-letter strategies
scaffolding
15. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
moratorium
generativity vs self-absorption
self-regulation
secondary reinforcer
16. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
experiment
process-product studies
generalization
attribution theory
17. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
content integration
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
procedural memory
communicating positive expectations
18. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
reinforcer
multiple intelligences
locus of control
growth needs
19. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
retroactive inhibition
achievement motivation
learning goals
within-class ability grouping
20. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
equity pedagogy
heteronomous morality
cognitive learning theories
generativity vs self-absorption
21. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
parallel play
advance organizers
compensatory preschool programs
norm-referenced interpretations
22. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
self-regulation
formal operational stage
discontinuous theories of development
parts of a direct instruction lesson
23. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)
wait time
dual code theory of memory
foreclosure
concrete operational stage
24. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
prosocial behaviors
summative evaluations
lesson clarity
nongraded programs
25. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
rehearsal
identity diffusion
major stage theorists
solitary play
26. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor
paired-associate learning
independent practice
effective use of independent practice time
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
27. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
centration
paired-associate learning
bilingual education
reinforcer
28. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
locus of control
compensatory preschool programs
preoperational stage
cognitive apprenticeship
29. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
psychosocial theory
modeling
reflexes
experiment
30. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
affective objectives
process-product studies
parallel play
automaticity
31. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
class inclusion
achievement motivation
derived scores
two-way bilingual education
32. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
bottom-up processing
experiment
review prerequisites
wait time
33. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.
Premack Principle
instrumental enrichment
intentionality
variable
34. A change in an individual that results from experience.
industry vs. inferiority
inert knowledge
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
learning
35. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
norm-referenced interpretations
self-esteem
summative evaluations
dual code theory of memory
36. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
massed practice
internal validity
schema theory
loci method
37. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.
concrete operational stage
heteronomous morality
behavior-content matrix
identity vs. role confusion
38. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
experimental group
moral dilemmas
shaping
neutral stimuli
39. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)
removal punishment
attention
communicating positive expectations
applied behavior analysis
40. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
large muscle development
emergent literacy
content evidence
schema theory
41. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
psychosocial crisis
sensorimotor stage
treatment
continuous theories of development
42. The study of learning and teaching.
cognitive apprenticeship
intimacy vs. isolation
educational psychology
conservation
43. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes
cognitive learning theories
aptitude-treatment interaction
mental set
external locus of control
44. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.
mediated learning
psychosocial crisis
calling order
criterion-related evidence
45. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.
group contingencies
PQ4R method
effective teaching
means-ends analysis
46. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
treatment
positive correlation
vicarious learning
neutral stimuli
47. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
working memory capacity
law
elaboration
moratorium
48. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
reinforcer
dual code theory of memory
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
removal punishment
49. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
levels-of-processing theory
external locus of control
keyword method
reflectivity
50. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
long-term memory
self-concept
cognitive behavior modification
principle