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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
expectancy theory
choral responses
extinction
individualized instruction
2. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
retroactive inhibition
self-regulated learners
behavior-content matrix
postconventional level of morality
3. Events that precede behaviors
antecedent stimuli
within-class ability grouping
retroactive inhibition
initial-letter strategies
4. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
cues
derived scores
learned helplessness
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
5. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
parts of a direct instruction lesson
object permanence
external locus of control
emergent literacy
6. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
conditioned stimulus
removal punishment
accommodation
loci method
7. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
elaboration
derived scores
cues
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
8. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
elaboration
paired bilingual education
large muscle development
formal operational stage
9. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
attention
self-actualization
adaptation
lesson clarity
10. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
solitary play
identity achievement
mapping
lesson clarity
11. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
private speech
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
interference
nongraded programs
12. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
distributed practice
variable
external locus of control
extinction burst
13. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
Skinner box
continuous theories of development
cooperative play
between-class ability grouping
14. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
control group
compensatory preschool programs
Blooms Taxonomy
enactment
15. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
Blooms Taxonomy
paired-associate learning
cognitive development
transitional bilingual education
16. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
transfer of learning
sensory register
effective teaching
outlining
17. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward
performance goals
expectancy theory
nformation-processing theory
initial-letter strategies
18. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)
egocentric
lesson clarity
initiative vs. guilt
observational learning
19. Environmental conditions that activate the senses
review prerequisites
two-way bilingual education
learning goals
stimuli
20. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
review prerequisites
transitional bilingual education
law
21. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
zone of proximal development
experimental group
assimilation
worked examples
22. Research + common sense
developmentally appropriate education
effective teaching
variable
centration
23. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
distributed practice
equilibration
reinforcer
egocentric
24. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
private speech
intimacy vs. isolation
theory
cooperative learning
25. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
associative play
mnemonics
randomized field experiment
schemes
26. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
interference
schemes
choral responses
metacognitive skills
27. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
criterion-related evidence
automaticity
generalization
accommodation
28. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
criterion-related evidence
Skinner box
sex-role behavior
behavioral learning theories
29. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
antecedent stimuli
foreclosure
identity vs. role confusion
long-term memory
30. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
compensatory preschool programs
uncorrelated variables
motivation
intimacy vs. isolation
31. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
content integration
intelligence
self-concept
schedule of reinforcement
32. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
top-down processing
concept
worked examples
experiment
33. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
bottom-up processing
solitary play
expectancy-valence model
learning goals
34. 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
effective use of independent practice time
psychosocial crisis
preoperational stage
large muscle development
35. 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
extinction
antecedent stimuli
social comparison
untracking
36. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
procedural memory
neutral stimuli
effective teaching
presentation punishment
37. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
choral responses
seatwork
generalization
self-actualization
38. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities
development
variable
Premack Principle
paired-associate learning
39. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
metacognitive skills
pedagogy
treatment
40. Perception of and response to different stimuli
discrimination
mnemonics
episodic memory
long-term memory
41. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
imagery
compensatory education
discovery learning
laboratory experiment
42. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
choral responses
mental set
interference
mnemonics
43. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
scaffolding
intelligence
shaping
massed practice
44. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
transitivity
concrete operational stage
random assignment
cognitive development
45. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
attention
mental set
early intervention program
autonomous morality
46. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
internal validity
scaffolding
antecedent stimuli
equity pedagogy
47. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
serial learning
proactive inhibition
inert knowledge
law
48. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.
laboratory experiment
flashbulb memory
early intervention program
development
49. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
cognitive development
unconditioned stimulus
cooperative play
treatment
50. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
seatwork
mnemonics
self-regulated learners
locus of control