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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
transitivity
outlining
concrete operational stage
cognitive apprenticeship
2. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
locus of control
treatment
consequences
bottom-up processing
3. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
content integration
regrouping
descriptive research
4. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
knowledge construction
object permanence
distributed practice
loci method
5. Events that precede behaviors
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
formative evaluation
antecedent stimuli
control group
6. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.
criterion-related evidence
keyword method
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
identity vs. role confusion
7. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
extinction burst
cooperative play
top-down processing
pegword method
8. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
negative correlation
cognitive learning theories
metacognitive skills
QAIT model
9. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.
schema theory
mapping
metacognitive skills
Premack Principle
10. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
moral dilemmas
discrimination
cognitive apprenticeship
pegword method
11. 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.
bottom-up processing
random assignment
behavioral learning theories
laboratory experiment
12. The study of learning and teaching.
mock participation
developmentally appropriate education
vicarious learning
educational psychology
13. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
negative correlation
metacognition
theory
external locus of control
14. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
sensory register
generalization
concept
individualized instruction
15. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
intimacy vs. isolation
shaping
bilingual education
removal punishment
16. Continuation (of behavior)
maintenance
associative play
wait time
identity vs. role confusion
17. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
mock participation
conditioned stimulus
large muscle development
formative evaluation
18. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
major stage theorists
worked examples
solitary play
loci method
19. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
teacher efficacy
serial learning
summative evaluations
preconventional level of morality
20. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
random assignment
equilibration
large muscle development
short-term/ working memory
21. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
review prerequisites
rehearsal
nongraded programs
law
22. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
choral responses
expectancy-valence model
instrumental enrichment
23. 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)
constructivist theories of learning
early intervention program
positive correlation
withitness
24. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
metacognition
cognitive apprenticeship
multiple intelligences
assimilation
25. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
laboratory experiment
intelligence quotient (IQ)
discontinuous theories of development
single-case experiment
26. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
metacognitive skills
zone of proximal development
sensorimotor stage
schedule of reinforcement
27. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
reciprocal teaching
within-class ability grouping
private speech
variable
28. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.
untracking
analogies
psychosocial theory
random assignment
29. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
top-down processing
theory
transitivity
intelligence
30. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
primacy effect
long-term memory
cognitive apprenticeship
continuous theories of development
31. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
flashbulb memory
experiment
consequences
locus of control
32. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
metacognition
multiple intelligences
withitness
learning probes
33. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
cognitive learning theories
attention
free-recall learning
schedule of reinforcement
34. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
adaptation
content integration
extinction
constructivist theories of learning
35. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others
self-regulation
moral dilemmas
communicating positive expectations
positive correlation
36. 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.
loci method
proactive inhibition
associative play
emergent literacy
37. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
consequences
variable
single-case experiment
psychosocial theory
38. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
schema theory
wait time
dual code theory of memory
industry vs. inferiority
39. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
correlational study
principle
individualized instruction
preconventional level of morality
40. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
cognitive learning theories
extinction
sex-role behavior
self-regulation
41. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
formal operational stage
positive correlation
paired bilingual education
between-class ability grouping
42. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
reflexes
cooperative learning
intentionality
massed practice
43. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
elaboration
automaticity
vicarious learning
procedural memory
44. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
vicarious learning
moratorium
lesson clarity
presentation punishment
45. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
generativity vs self-absorption
constructivist theories of learning
constructivism
multiple intelligences
46. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
assertive discipline
stimuli
self-concept
imagery
47. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
analogies
effective use of independent practice time
teacher efficacy
correlational study
48. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
enactment
variable
sign systems
identity vs. role confusion
49. 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.
transitional bilingual education
mediated learning
worked examples
cognitive behavior modification
50. 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
paired-associate learning
effective use of independent practice time
foreclosure
classical conditioning