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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson
semantic memory
parts of a direct instruction lesson
solitary play
mental set
2. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
self-regulated learners
self-regulation
correlational study
generativity vs self-absorption
3. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
pedagogy
attribution theory
procedural memory
identity vs. role confusion
4. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.
major stage theorists
expectancy theory
uncorrelated variables
emergent literacy
5. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
stimuli
choral responses
summative evaluations
learning goals
6. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
affective objectives
primacy effect
assimilation
conventional level of morality
7. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
pegword method
discontinuous theories of development
self-esteem
criterion-related evidence
8. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
operant conditioning
working memory capacity
episodic memory
accommodation
9. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
mapping
foreclosure
autonomous morality
cooperative play
10. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
self-regulated learners
constructivism
expectancy theory
paired bilingual education
11. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
theory
centration
descriptive research
mock participation
12. Research + common sense
sex-role behavior
pedagogy
control group
effective teaching
13. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
extinction
inert knowledge
cues
social comparison
14. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
concept
development
advance organizers
unconditioned stimulus
15. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
cooperative play
paired bilingual education
foreclosure
positive correlation
16. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.
reversibility
behavioral learning theories
extinction
external locus of control
17. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
postconventional level of morality
mediated learning
primacy effect
principle
18. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.
prejudice reduction
scaffolding
semantic memory
neutral stimuli
19. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
primary reinforcer
social comparison
developmentally appropriate education
episodic memory
20. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
motivation
continuous theories of development
class inclusion
generativity vs self-absorption
21. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
emergent literacy
behavioral learning theories
self-esteem
seriation
22. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
secondary reinforcer
generalization
outlining
initial-letter strategies
23. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
law
rule-example-rule
reinforcer
neutral stimuli
24. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
conditioned stimulus
early intervention program
schemes
observational learning
25. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
parallel play
rote learning
loci method
procedural memory
26. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.
Premack Principle
constructivist theories of learning
elaboration
self-regulation
27. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
analogies
object permanence
mapping
rule-example-rule
28. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
shaping
review prerequisites
attribution theory
direct instruction
29. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
consequences
conservation
dual code theory of memory
conventional level of morality
30. Perception of and response to different stimuli
sign systems
compensatory preschool programs
mnemonics
discrimination
31. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
derived scores
deficiency needs
Joplin Plan
content integration
32. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory
mnemonics
choral responses
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
expectancy theory
33. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
automaticity
massed practice
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
effective use of independent practice time
34. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
imagery
performance goals
learned helplessness
operant conditioning
35. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
rehearsal
associative play
egocentric
uncorrelated variables
36. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
moral dilemmas
large muscle development
major stage theorists
interference
37. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
social comparison
recency effect
cues
motivation
38. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
variable-interval schedule.
performance goals
outlining
locus of control
39. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
nformation-processing theory
transfer of learning
sign systems
development
40. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.
class inclusion
self-esteem
withitness
psychosocial theory
41. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.
levels-of-processing theory
recency effect
learning goals
constructivist theories of learning
42. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
continuous theories of development
presentation punishment
experimental group
cues
43. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
mediated learning
sign systems
performance goals
retroactive inhibition
44. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
psychosocial crisis
sex-role behavior
readiness training
compensatory education
45. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
home-based reinforcement strategies
locus of control
cooperative scripting
rote learning
46. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
extinction
self-actualization
mapping
autonomous morality
47. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
extinction burst
antecedent stimuli
expectancy-valence model
48. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
summative evaluations
equity pedagogy
variable
primacy effect
49. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
self-questioning strategies
bottom-up processing
punishment
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
50. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
mediated learning
small muscle development
perception
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)