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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
transitivity
stimuli
inferred reality
2. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
mapping
working memory capacity
communicating positive expectations
mental set
3. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
summative evaluations
industry vs. inferiority
self-regulated learners
cooperative scripting
4. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
psychosocial theory
self-regulated learners
discontinuous theories of development
extinction
5. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
readiness training
elaboration
lesson clarity
vicarious learning
6. 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.
working memory capacity
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
criterion-references interpretations
class inclusion
7. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
operant conditioning
norm-referenced interpretations
adaptation
intentionality
8. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
wait time
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
punishment
reflexes
9. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
top-down processing
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
metacognition
knowledge construction
10. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
procedural memory
centration
dual code theory of memory
schemes
11. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
generativity vs self-absorption
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
moratorium
Blooms Taxonomy
12. Continuation (of behavior)
content evidence
consequences
worked examples
maintenance
13. The study of learning and teaching.
conventional level of morality
educational psychology
small muscle development
paired bilingual education
14. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
within-class ability grouping
intelligence quotient (IQ)
advance organizers
principle
15. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
attention
inert knowledge
autonomous morality
external validity
16. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
effective use of independent practice time
educational psychology
cooperative play
inert knowledge
17. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
metacognition
instrumental enrichment
self-actualization
foreclosure
18. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
primary reinforcer
lesson clarity
schemes
overlapping
19. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
rehearsal
secondary reinforcer
retroactive inhibition
parts of a direct instruction lesson
20. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
calling order
individualized instruction
solitary play
zone of proximal development
21. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
descriptive research
variable
trust vs. mistrust
consequences
22. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
motivation
emergent literacy
external locus of control
social comparison
23. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.
wait time
moratorium
single-case experiment
flashbulb memory
24. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.
foreclosure
fixed-interval schedule
rote learning
inert knowledge
25. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
multiple intelligences
attention
experiment
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
26. 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.
distributed practice
egocentric
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
heteronomous morality
27. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
learning probes
top-down processing
cooperative play
rote learning
28. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
proactive facilitation
identity vs. role confusion
short-term/ working memory
attribution theory
29. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
variable-interval schedule.
reinforcer
major stage theorists
knowledge construction
30. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
semantic memory
accommodation
intelligence
law
31. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
primary reinforcer
constructivist theories of learning
english immersion
serial learning
32. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
social comparison
single-case experiment
major stage theorists
variable
33. Play that occurs alone.
critical thinking
behavior-content matrix
private speech
solitary play
34. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
laboratory experiment
Premack Principle
conventional level of morality
assertive discipline
35. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
criterion-related evidence
adaptation
random assignment
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
36. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
heteronomous morality
multiple intelligences
procedural memory
content integration
37. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
recency effect
heteronomous morality
treatment
zone of proximal development
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.
means-ends analysis
pegword method
cognitive apprenticeship
maintenance
39. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
automaticity
verbal learning
aptitude-treatment interaction
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
40. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
group contingencies
self-esteem
summarizing
adaptation
41. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
content evidence
metacognitive skills
elaboration
initial-letter strategies
42. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow
transitional bilingual education
cognitive behavior modification
proactive inhibition
growth needs
43. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
performance goals
overlapping
centration
advance organizers
44. 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
reciprocal teaching
bottom-up processing
semantic memory
law
45. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
observational learning
applied behavior analysis
compensatory education
transitivity
46. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
self-regulated learners
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
primacy effect
sensory register
47. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
action research
worked examples
cooperative learning
individualized instruction
48. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
between-class ability grouping
norm-referenced interpretations
social comparison
intimacy vs. isolation
49. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
group contingencies
theory
self-actualization
growth needs
50. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
automaticity
small muscle development
nformation-processing theory
equity pedagogy
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