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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
educational psychology
outlining
learned helplessness
transitional bilingual education
2. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.
intentionality
expectancy-valence model
randomized field experiment
heteronomous morality
3. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
effective use of independent practice time
intentionality
shaping
mnemonics
4. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.
nongraded programs
learning
mediated learning
bottom-up processing
5. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
major stage theorists
wait time
external locus of control
affective objectives
6. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
social comparison
rule-example-rule
equilibration
growth needs
7. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
modeling
variable
proactive inhibition
schedule of reinforcement
8. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
cooperative scripting
secondary reinforcer
free-recall learning
centration
9. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
analogies
sex-role behavior
experimental group
Joplin Plan
10. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
experiment
achievement motivation
emergent literacy
modeling
11. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation
expectancy-valence model
Skinner box
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
industry vs. inferiority
12. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
intelligence
self-actualization
serial learning
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
13. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
short-term/ working memory
early intervention program
accommodation
summative evaluations
14. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
retroactive inhibition
episodic memory
individualized instruction
positive correlation
15. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
mediated learning
equity pedagogy
learning goals
egocentric
16. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
summative evaluations
variable-interval schedule.
formative evaluation
content evidence
17. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
constructivism
multiple intelligences
teacher efficacy
centration
18. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
metacognitive skills
readiness training
sign systems
transfer of learning
19. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
cooperative scripting
solitary play
primacy effect
free-recall learning
20. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
concept
home-based reinforcement strategies
formative evaluation
accommodation
21. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
formal operational stage
centration
keyword method
cognitive development
22. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
process-product studies
learned helplessness
preoperational stage
industry vs. inferiority
23. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
multiple intelligences
random assignment
content evidence
distributed practice
24. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
parts of a direct instruction lesson
cooperative play
group contingencies
cognitive behavior modification
25. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
summative evaluations
formative evaluation
principle
procedural memory
26. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
adaptation
proactive inhibition
consequences
direct instruction
27. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
retroactive inhibition
communicating positive expectations
home-based reinforcement strategies
intimacy vs. isolation
28. 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
parallel play
observational learning
theory
means-ends analysis
29. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
inert knowledge
autonomous morality
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
seriation
30. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
self-regulation
effective teaching
heteronomous morality
enactment
31. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
bilingual education
sex-role behavior
criterion-references interpretations
behavioral learning theories
32. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes
cognitive learning theories
Skinner box
identity vs. role confusion
learned helplessness
33. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
perception
motivation
constructivism
vicarious learning
34. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
equity pedagogy
multiple intelligences
paired bilingual education
cooperative scripting
35. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
postconventional level of morality
bottom-up processing
withitness
internal validity
36. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
assimilation
object permanence
advance organizers
primacy effect
37. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
self-regulation
external locus of control
intelligence
deficiency needs
38. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
generalization
recency effect
constructivist theories of learning
action research
39. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.
multiple intelligences
consequences
analogies
massed practice
40. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
achievement motivation
autonomous morality
overlapping
presentation punishment
41. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
preconventional level of morality
conditioned stimulus
modeling
long-term memory
42. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
PQ4R method
egocentric
interference
levels-of-processing theory
43. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
industry vs. inferiority
random assignment
major stage theorists
discrimination
44. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
criterion-references interpretations
experimental group
major stage theorists
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
45. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
unconditioned stimulus
working memory capacity
initial-letter strategies
norm-referenced interpretations
46. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
flashbulb memory
operant conditioning
overlapping
experimental group
47. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
constructivism
QAIT model
massed practice
self-actualization
48. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
parts of a direct instruction lesson
cues
schemata
withitness
49. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
trust vs. mistrust
object permanence
primacy effect
antecedent stimuli
50. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
operant conditioning
moratorium
locus of control
paired bilingual education
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