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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
mental set
primacy effect
two-way bilingual education
variable-interval schedule.
2. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
rote learning
neutral stimuli
effective teaching
accommodation
3. 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.
paired-associate learning
emergent literacy
secondary reinforcer
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
4. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
flashbulb memory
shaping
primary reinforcer
achievement motivation
5. 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
Joplin Plan
observational learning
inert knowledge
identity diffusion
6. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
schedule of reinforcement
QAIT model
equity pedagogy
self-questioning strategies
7. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
nongraded programs
achievement motivation
multiple intelligences
secondary reinforcer
8. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
sensory register
classical conditioning
criterion-related evidence
identity achievement
9. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
retroactive facilitation
elaboration
emergent literacy
direct instruction
10. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
schemes
egocentric
performance goals
11. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
sensory register
working memory capacity
paired bilingual education
theory
12. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
bilingual education
discovery learning
long-term memory
variable-interval schedule.
13. 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)
cues
self-questioning strategies
constructivist theories of learning
wait time
14. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities
intelligence quotient (IQ)
short-term/ working memory
assimilation
Premack Principle
15. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
behavior-content matrix
identity achievement
top-down processing
prosocial behaviors
16. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
learned helplessness
perception
content evidence
knowledge construction
17. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.
behavioral learning theories
procedural memory
free-recall learning
concept
18. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
procedural memory
large muscle development
nformation-processing theory
discovery learning
19. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
extinction
retroactive facilitation
formative evaluation
teacher efficacy
20. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
negative correlation
control group
continuous theories of development
small muscle development
21. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
mapping
paired bilingual education
Blooms Taxonomy
teacher efficacy
22. 5 to 9 pieces of information
early intervention program
working memory capacity
laboratory experiment
schemes
23. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
conservation
operant conditioning
meaningful learning
punishment
24. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
long-term memory
solitary play
sex-role behavior
discovery learning
25. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
adaptation
randomized field experiment
attribution theory
schemes
26. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
accommodation
levels-of-processing theory
regrouping
working memory capacity
27. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
fixed-interval schedule
lesson clarity
Blooms Taxonomy
external locus of control
28. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
metacognition
levels-of-processing theory
trust vs. mistrust
operant conditioning
29. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
development
early intervention program
generalization
enactment
30. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
foreclosure
means-ends analysis
mapping
elaboration
31. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
proactive inhibition
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
equity pedagogy
punishment
32. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
formative evaluation
conditioned stimulus
serial learning
two-way bilingual education
33. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
flashbulb memory
review prerequisites
development
group contingencies
34. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
social learning theory
interference
educational psychology
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
35. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
untracking
seriation
mediated learning
uncorrelated variables
36. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
sensorimotor stage
between-class ability grouping
cooperative scripting
antecedent stimuli
37. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
reversibility
criterion-related evidence
means-ends analysis
content integration
38. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
variable-interval schedule.
positive correlation
control group
primary reinforcer
39. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.
inert knowledge
bilingual education
QAIT model
intentionality
40. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.
withitness
integrity vs. despiar
cues
generativity vs self-absorption
41. 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.
learned helplessness
descriptive research
laboratory experiment
cognitive apprenticeship
42. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
criterion-related evidence
within-class ability grouping
social comparison
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
43. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
psychosocial crisis
meaningful learning
concept
proactive facilitation
44. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
process-product studies
continuous theories of development
assertive discipline
45. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
compensatory education
sensory register
attention
long-term memory
46. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
lesson clarity
interference
regrouping
law
47. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
descriptive research
preoperational stage
communicating positive expectations
loci method
48. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.
self-questioning strategies
development
theory
equilibration
49. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
untracking
PQ4R method
parts of a direct instruction lesson
egocentric
50. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
shaping
cues
primacy effect
cognitive behavior modification
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