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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
behavior-content matrix
random assignment
intentionality
emergent literacy
2. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
verbal learning
lesson clarity
internal validity
sex-role behavior
3. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
perception
PQ4R method
law
adaptation
4. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
overlapping
interference
intimacy vs. isolation
action research
5. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
correlational study
formal operational stage
sex-role behavior
positive correlation
6. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
cooperative play
solitary play
experiment
object permanence
7. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
compensatory education
learned helplessness
episodic memory
early intervention program
8. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
keyword method
concrete operational stage
Joplin Plan
readiness training
9. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
rule-example-rule
vicarious learning
randomized field experiment
worked examples
10. Perception of and response to different stimuli
scaffolding
learning
moratorium
discrimination
11. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
conditioned stimulus
verbal learning
industry vs. inferiority
sex-role behavior
12. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
flashbulb memory
english immersion
proactive inhibition
cognitive behavior modification
13. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
intelligence
Premack Principle
attribution theory
english immersion
14. 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
generativity vs self-absorption
critical thinking
primary reinforcer
15. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
scaffolding
derived scores
behavioral learning theories
procedural memory
16. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
working memory capacity
removal punishment
metacognition
17. Play that occurs alone.
attention
analogies
transitional bilingual education
solitary play
18. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
cognitive apprenticeship
reinforcer
criterion-related evidence
locus of control
19. 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
intelligence
effective use of independent practice time
identity diffusion
preconventional level of morality
20. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
procedural memory
mental set
metacognitive skills
Skinner box
21. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
primacy effect
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
Skinner box
intelligence quotient (IQ)
22. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
adaptation
deficiency needs
identity vs. role confusion
cues
23. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
metacognition
direct instruction
identity achievement
experimental group
24. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
mapping
heteronomous morality
extinction
preconventional level of morality
25. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
intimacy vs. isolation
recency effect
untracking
variable
26. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
early intervention program
conventional level of morality
neutral stimuli
observational learning
27. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.
negative correlation
removal punishment
bottom-up processing
fixed-interval schedule
28. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
sign systems
readiness training
trust vs. mistrust
serial learning
29. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
rule-example-rule
correlational study
descriptive research
moratorium
30. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
norm-referenced interpretations
serial learning
process-product studies
individualized instruction
31. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
removal punishment
consequences
seatwork
32. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.
Skinner box
instrumental enrichment
pegword method
english immersion
33. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
deficiency needs
moral dilemmas
performance goals
shaping
34. 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.
adaptation
generalization
solitary play
emergent literacy
35. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
cues
single-case experiment
cognitive development
expectancy theory
36. Events that precede behaviors
working memory capacity
schema theory
extinction burst
antecedent stimuli
37. 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
foreclosure
automaticity
accommodation
38. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
development
extinction burst
preconventional level of morality
operant conditioning
39. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
parts of a direct instruction lesson
shaping
scaffolding
criterion-references interpretations
40. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
verbal learning
law
sex-role behavior
retroactive inhibition
41. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
control group
long-term memory
withitness
aptitude-treatment interaction
42. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.
lesson clarity
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
correlational study
equilibration
43. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
small muscle development
flashbulb memory
negative correlation
intelligence
44. A change in an individual that results from experience.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
learning
elaboration
paired-associate learning
45. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
vicarious learning
enactment
outlining
conditioned stimulus
46. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
wait time
variable-interval schedule.
generalization
operant conditioning
47. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
major stage theorists
performance goals
generalization
sensorimotor stage
48. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
educational psychology
associative play
group contingencies
interference
49. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
zone of proximal development
rote learning
intelligence quotient (IQ)
keyword method
50. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
summative evaluations
compensatory preschool programs
transitivity
vicarious learning