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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
Premack Principle
moratorium
affective objectives
flashbulb memory
2. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
verbal learning
overlapping
proactive inhibition
trust vs. mistrust
3. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
schema theory
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
formative evaluation
discontinuous theories of development
4. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
continuous theories of development
group contingencies
consequences
independent practice
5. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
overlapping
internal validity
sensory register
short-term/ working memory
6. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
semantic memory
aptitude-treatment interaction
sensory register
criterion-references interpretations
7. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
foreclosure
metacognitive skills
long-term memory
rule-example-rule
8. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
achievement motivation
top-down processing
criterion-related evidence
flashbulb memory
9. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
automaticity
choral responses
compensatory education
summarizing
10. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
external validity
effective use of independent practice time
group contingencies
process-product studies
11. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
effective teaching
identity vs. role confusion
review prerequisites
short-term/ working memory
12. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si
external validity
enactment
Blooms Taxonomy
adaptation
13. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
self-regulated learners
stimuli
motivation
working memory capacity
14. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
sensorimotor stage
paired-associate learning
proactive facilitation
extinction burst
15. 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
norm-referenced interpretations
formative evaluation
self-concept
16. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
moral dilemmas
conventional level of morality
law
single-case experiment
17. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.
major stage theorists
QAIT model
retroactive facilitation
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
18. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
transfer of learning
parallel play
transitivity
withitness
19. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
learning
paired bilingual education
fixed-interval schedule
external locus of control
20. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
solitary play
Skinner box
formative evaluation
antecedent stimuli
21. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
cues
norm-referenced interpretations
nongraded programs
continuous theories of development
22. 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
conventional level of morality
emergent literacy
transitional bilingual education
observational learning
23. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
emergent literacy
industry vs. inferiority
transfer of learning
random assignment
24. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
growth needs
motivation
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
criterion-related evidence
25. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
random assignment
randomized field experiment
educational psychology
between-class ability grouping
26. Learning of a list of items in any order.
control group
attribution theory
free-recall learning
removal punishment
27. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
keyword method
pedagogy
criterion-references interpretations
sex-role behavior
28. 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
wait time
action research
achievement motivation
effective use of independent practice time
29. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson
variable
paired bilingual education
mediated learning
mental set
30. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
worked examples
imagery
identity achievement
formative evaluation
31. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question
cooperative scripting
cognitive development
identity vs. role confusion
seriation
32. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.
autonomy vs. doubt
vicarious learning
extinction
equilibration
33. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
imagery
flashbulb memory
operant conditioning
cognitive apprenticeship
34. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
theory
reflectivity
conservation
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
35. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
presentation punishment
vicarious learning
retroactive inhibition
instrumental enrichment
36. 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.
loci method
communicating positive expectations
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
means-ends analysis
37. 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.
outlining
overlapping
schema theory
intelligence
38. Environmental conditions that activate the senses
sensorimotor stage
stimuli
inert knowledge
compensatory education
39. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
principle
calling order
summarizing
postconventional level of morality
40. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
modeling
Premack Principle
variable
control group
41. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.
educational psychology
schemes
associative play
proactive facilitation
42. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
conservation
cooperative play
achievement motivation
randomized field experiment
43. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
internal validity
removal punishment
reinforcer
semantic memory
44. Research + common sense
nformation-processing theory
vicarious learning
concrete operational stage
effective teaching
45. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
learning goals
private speech
summarizing
mnemonics
46. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
schedule of reinforcement
proactive facilitation
cooperative scripting
development
47. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
withitness
pedagogy
negative correlation
laboratory experiment
48. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
correlational study
external locus of control
presentation punishment
trust vs. mistrust
49. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
recency effect
content evidence
note-taking
development
50. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
heteronomous morality
seriation
transitional bilingual education
treatment