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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
reflectivity
stimuli
large muscle development
2. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
attention
analogies
initiative vs. guilt
self-regulation
3. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
communicating positive expectations
proactive inhibition
summative evaluations
maintenance
4. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
equity pedagogy
sensorimotor stage
theory
discovery learning
5. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
norm-referenced interpretations
paired-associate learning
random assignment
learning probes
6. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
cooperative scripting
moral dilemmas
content evidence
assertive discipline
7. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
nformation-processing theory
reciprocal teaching
cognitive development
knowledge construction
8. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
class inclusion
reflexes
within-class ability grouping
expectancy theory
9. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
learning goals
overlapping
norm-referenced interpretations
primacy effect
10. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
principle
equilibration
summative evaluations
neutral stimuli
11. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
conditioned stimulus
secondary reinforcer
developmentally appropriate education
egocentric
12. Continuation (of behavior)
conditioned stimulus
vicarious learning
maintenance
elaboration
13. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
episodic memory
class inclusion
rehearsal
elaboration
14. Perception of and response to different stimuli
semantic memory
cognitive learning theories
discrimination
schemata
15. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
working memory capacity
conservation
primary reinforcer
schemes
16. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.
cognitive apprenticeship
metacognition
proactive facilitation
process-product studies
17. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
rule-example-rule
free-recall learning
consequences
compensatory preschool programs
18. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
cognitive apprenticeship
variable
intimacy vs. isolation
cooperative scripting
19. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
self-esteem
correlational study
discovery learning
20. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
adaptation
continuous theories of development
schedule of reinforcement
learning probes
21. 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.
private speech
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
multiple intelligences
integrity vs. despiar
22. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
attribution theory
mnemonics
independent practice
reflectivity
23. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
negative correlation
deficiency needs
mediated learning
identity diffusion
24. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
criterion-references interpretations
group contingencies
schedule of reinforcement
cognitive behavior modification
25. 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.
compensatory education
transitional bilingual education
flashbulb memory
emergent literacy
26. 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)
working memory capacity
initiative vs. guilt
psychosocial crisis
autonomous morality
27. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
home-based reinforcement strategies
locus of control
transitivity
reinforcer
28. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
centration
intelligence quotient (IQ)
learned helplessness
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
29. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
applied behavior analysis
schemes
postconventional level of morality
enactment
30. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.
means-ends analysis
theory
between-class ability grouping
critical thinking
31. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
conventional level of morality
constructivist theories of learning
process-product studies
metacognitive skills
32. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
elaboration
reversibility
verbal learning
primacy effect
33. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
overlapping
cooperative scripting
seriation
34. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
external validity
dual code theory of memory
neutral stimuli
assimilation
35. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
moratorium
Skinner box
Premack Principle
critical thinking
36. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
psychosocial crisis
moratorium
parts of a direct instruction lesson
maintenance
37. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
parallel play
semantic memory
short-term/ working memory
prosocial behaviors
38. 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.
self-regulation
equilibration
effective teaching
laboratory experiment
39. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.
neutral stimuli
self-actualization
compensatory preschool programs
critical thinking
40. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
accommodation
inert knowledge
elaboration
outlining
41. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
autonomous morality
moral dilemmas
individualized instruction
short-term/ working memory
42. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
autonomous morality
loci method
verbal learning
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
43. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
attribution theory
intentionality
regrouping
early intervention program
44. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
removal punishment
Premack Principle
performance goals
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
45. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
metacognition
schemata
top-down processing
concept
46. Environmental conditions that activate the senses
stimuli
proactive inhibition
principle
cues
47. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward
laboratory experiment
expectancy theory
variable
assimilation
48. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
attribution theory
neutral stimuli
randomized field experiment
achievement motivation
49. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
initial-letter strategies
action research
transitivity
50. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
automaticity
knowledge construction
positive correlation
parts of a direct instruction lesson
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