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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
note-taking
cognitive development
conservation
achievement motivation
2. 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
treatment
learning probes
growth needs
3. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
communicating positive expectations
seriation
mock participation
educational psychology
4. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.
levels-of-processing theory
intentionality
uncorrelated variables
external validity
5. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
cooperative scripting
motivation
transitivity
private speech
6. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
classical conditioning
self-concept
rule-example-rule
episodic memory
7. 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)
conventional level of morality
primacy effect
constructivist theories of learning
class inclusion
8. Research + common sense
verbal learning
preoperational stage
self-concept
effective teaching
9. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
QAIT model
cognitive development
secondary reinforcer
communicating positive expectations
10. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes
mediated learning
formal operational stage
cognitive learning theories
action research
11. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.
independent practice
prejudice reduction
primacy effect
keyword method
12. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
withitness
free-recall learning
deficiency needs
sex-role behavior
13. 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
formative evaluation
effective use of independent practice time
randomized field experiment
rehearsal
14. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
continuous theories of development
intentionality
behavior-content matrix
PQ4R method
15. 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.
emergent literacy
negative correlation
choral responses
autonomy vs. doubt
16. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
Blooms Taxonomy
knowledge construction
long-term memory
self-actualization
17. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
group contingencies
large muscle development
nformation-processing theory
psychosocial crisis
18. Learning of a list of items in any order.
semantic memory
intelligence quotient (IQ)
Blooms Taxonomy
free-recall learning
19. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
independent practice
equilibration
bottom-up processing
external validity
20. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
law
top-down processing
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
mapping
21. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
classical conditioning
motivation
adaptation
parallel play
22. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
individualized instruction
short-term/ working memory
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
law
23. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
egocentric
worked examples
procedural memory
initiative vs. guilt
24. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
discovery learning
Skinner box
intelligence quotient (IQ)
presentation punishment
25. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
working memory capacity
equilibration
group contingencies
cooperative scripting
26. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
secondary reinforcer
neutral stimuli
major stage theorists
learning probes
27. Perception of and response to different stimuli
schedule of reinforcement
discrimination
randomized field experiment
parallel play
28. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
home-based reinforcement strategies
discontinuous theories of development
group contingencies
paired bilingual education
29. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
associative play
metacognitive skills
formal operational stage
sensory register
30. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
derived scores
advance organizers
positive correlation
growth needs
31. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
scaffolding
affective objectives
correlational study
derived scores
32. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
short-term/ working memory
content integration
self-esteem
moral dilemmas
33. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
conservation
single-case experiment
social comparison
identity vs. role confusion
34. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
learning probes
reflexes
automaticity
extinction burst
35. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
meaningful learning
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
interference
Premack Principle
36. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
instrumental enrichment
behavior-content matrix
metacognitive skills
reflexes
37. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
teacher efficacy
operant conditioning
private speech
wait time
38. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
overlapping
consequences
foreclosure
schemata
39. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
metacognition
teacher efficacy
intelligence
moratorium
40. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
experimental group
early intervention program
enactment
serial learning
41. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
loci method
object permanence
mnemonics
external locus of control
42. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
negative correlation
randomized field experiment
schedule of reinforcement
Premack Principle
43. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
schemata
stimuli
applied behavior analysis
Blooms Taxonomy
44. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
external validity
serial learning
moral dilemmas
variable-interval schedule.
45. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
nongraded programs
cognitive learning theories
within-class ability grouping
rule-example-rule
46. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
bilingual education
moral dilemmas
nformation-processing theory
between-class ability grouping
47. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
presentation punishment
learned helplessness
transitivity
initial-letter strategies
48. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
instrumental enrichment
semantic memory
major stage theorists
free-recall learning
49. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
random assignment
shaping
Joplin Plan
attention
50. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
content evidence
worked examples
transitivity
reciprocal teaching