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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
growth needs
sensorimotor stage
individualized instruction
behavior-content matrix
2. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
formative evaluation
assertive discipline
distributed practice
learned helplessness
3. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
reflectivity
transfer of learning
variable
randomized field experiment
4. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
teacher efficacy
zone of proximal development
consequences
self-regulation
5. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
experimental group
proactive inhibition
retroactive inhibition
bottom-up processing
6. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
lesson clarity
prejudice reduction
conservation
derived scores
7. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
QAIT model
postconventional level of morality
random assignment
associative play
8. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
criterion-references interpretations
initial-letter strategies
attribution theory
mediated learning
9. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
choral responses
behavior-content matrix
aptitude-treatment interaction
long-term memory
10. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co
critical thinking
observational learning
assertive discipline
seatwork
11. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
direct instruction
mock participation
rehearsal
treatment
12. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
readiness training
continuous theories of development
proactive facilitation
formal operational stage
13. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
observational learning
keyword method
PQ4R method
cognitive learning theories
14. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
metacognition
achievement motivation
initial-letter strategies
learning probes
15. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
small muscle development
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
learning goals
initial-letter strategies
16. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
withitness
punishment
calling order
equity pedagogy
17. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.
extinction
outlining
equilibration
psychosocial crisis
18. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
reinforcer
sex-role behavior
transitivity
communicating positive expectations
19. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
aptitude-treatment interaction
expectancy theory
metacognition
attribution theory
20. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
continuous theories of development
summarizing
small muscle development
automaticity
21. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.
industry vs. inferiority
large muscle development
paired-associate learning
flashbulb memory
22. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need
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23. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
schemes
calling order
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
english immersion
24. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
social learning theory
two-way bilingual education
primary reinforcer
action research
25. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
formative evaluation
dual code theory of memory
cooperative learning
between-class ability grouping
26. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
rote learning
flashbulb memory
law
autonomous morality
27. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
free-recall learning
preoperational stage
28. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
means-ends analysis
transitional bilingual education
negative correlation
summarizing
29. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
reciprocal teaching
review prerequisites
learned helplessness
identity achievement
30. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
schedule of reinforcement
variable
preconventional level of morality
action research
31. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)
growth needs
formative evaluation
applied behavior analysis
intimacy vs. isolation
32. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
parallel play
constructivism
developmentally appropriate education
law
33. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
shaping
generalization
fixed-interval schedule
moratorium
34. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
performance goals
equilibration
cues
35. Learning of a list of items in any order.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
choral responses
free-recall learning
cognitive development
36. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.
generalization
learning
small muscle development
compensatory education
37. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
consequences
internal validity
moral dilemmas
emergent literacy
38. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
moral dilemmas
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
mapping
schemata
39. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
discovery learning
calling order
interference
positive correlation
40. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
pegword method
equilibration
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
locus of control
41. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
mock participation
conventional level of morality
autonomous morality
42. Perception of and response to different stimuli
industry vs. inferiority
within-class ability grouping
learning
discrimination
43. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
interference
seriation
generativity vs self-absorption
primacy effect
44. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.
keyword method
short-term/ working memory
intentionality
mock participation
45. 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
psychosocial crisis
adaptation
effective use of independent practice time
cooperative play
46. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
identity vs. role confusion
generativity vs self-absorption
autonomous morality
Premack Principle
47. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
experimental group
private speech
small muscle development
positive correlation
48. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
outlining
inferred reality
neutral stimuli
extinction burst
49. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
descriptive research
experiment
affective objectives
object permanence
50. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation
learned helplessness
cues
expectancy-valence model
schemes