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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
self-regulation
locus of control
intentionality
behavioral learning theories
2. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
social comparison
removal punishment
interference
assimilation
3. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.
discovery learning
cognitive apprenticeship
outlining
self-regulation
4. 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.
inferred reality
solitary play
scaffolding
intelligence quotient (IQ)
5. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
removal punishment
psychosocial crisis
private speech
correlational study
6. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
self-questioning strategies
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
egocentric
deficiency needs
7. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
english immersion
within-class ability grouping
inferred reality
compensatory preschool programs
8. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
postconventional level of morality
outlining
mnemonics
9. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory
criterion-related evidence
automaticity
mnemonics
perception
10. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
keyword method
imagery
zone of proximal development
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
11. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
primacy effect
regrouping
pedagogy
action research
12. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.
single-case experiment
action research
wait time
psychosocial theory
13. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.
early intervention program
means-ends analysis
class inclusion
episodic memory
14. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
autonomy vs. doubt
primary reinforcer
sensorimotor stage
constructivism
15. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
equity pedagogy
principle
concrete operational stage
english immersion
16. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
self-actualization
concrete operational stage
self-esteem
experimental group
17. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
treatment
inert knowledge
verbal learning
variable
18. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
meaningful learning
between-class ability grouping
self-concept
nongraded programs
19. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
keyword method
mock participation
behavior-content matrix
psychosocial crisis
20. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.
keyword method
identity vs. role confusion
paired-associate learning
instrumental enrichment
21. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
content integration
group contingencies
preoperational stage
dual code theory of memory
22. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
process-product studies
rehearsal
critical thinking
23. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
integrity vs. despiar
associative play
cooperative scripting
independent practice
24. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
levels-of-processing theory
neutral stimuli
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
behavioral learning theories
25. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension
law
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
reciprocal teaching
industry vs. inferiority
26. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need
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27. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
heteronomous morality
variable
egocentric
conservation
28. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
sensory register
independent practice
external locus of control
top-down processing
29. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
mediated learning
development
analogies
metacognitive skills
30. 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.
mnemonics
negative correlation
initial-letter strategies
emergent literacy
31. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
nformation-processing theory
initiative vs. guilt
autonomy vs. doubt
process-product studies
32. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
norm-referenced interpretations
content integration
initiative vs. guilt
33. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
regrouping
antecedent stimuli
motivation
cues
34. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
punishment
adaptation
expectancy-valence model
35. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
reflectivity
inferred reality
retroactive inhibition
pegword method
36. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
mental set
communicating positive expectations
parts of a direct instruction lesson
single-case experiment
37. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
intentionality
verbal learning
nformation-processing theory
preoperational stage
38. 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.
massed practice
means-ends analysis
law
postconventional level of morality
39. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
constructivist theories of learning
cognitive development
bottom-up processing
conventional level of morality
40. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
norm-referenced interpretations
process-product studies
meaningful learning
prosocial behaviors
41. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
operant conditioning
foreclosure
mapping
scaffolding
42. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
learned helplessness
schemata
bottom-up processing
content evidence
43. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
short-term/ working memory
social comparison
behavioral learning theories
preconventional level of morality
44. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
summative evaluations
nformation-processing theory
seriation
shaping
45. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
discontinuous theories of development
parts of a direct instruction lesson
action research
inferred reality
46. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
cooperative scripting
intelligence quotient (IQ)
secondary reinforcer
social comparison
47. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
equilibration
calling order
educational psychology
adaptation
48. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
variable
proactive facilitation
pedagogy
moral dilemmas
49. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.
control group
intentionality
group contingencies
communicating positive expectations
50. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
expectancy-valence model
individualized instruction
reflectivity
single-case experiment