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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
development
advance organizers
conditioned stimulus
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
2. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
modeling
classical conditioning
identity vs. role confusion
unconditioned stimulus
3. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
constructivist theories of learning
wait time
Joplin Plan
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
4. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
reflexes
removal punishment
social comparison
self-concept
5. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
metacognition
individualized instruction
development
principle
6. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
moratorium
flashbulb memory
cooperative play
cues
7. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
locus of control
retroactive facilitation
assertive discipline
constructivism
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
single-case experiment
seriation
mapping
criterion-related evidence
9. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
dual code theory of memory
Skinner box
intelligence quotient (IQ)
object permanence
10. Continuation (of behavior)
metacognition
maintenance
derived scores
interference
11. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
outlining
zone of proximal development
postconventional level of morality
compensatory education
12. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
solitary play
episodic memory
instrumental enrichment
13. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
experimental group
self-regulated learners
massed practice
knowledge construction
14. Research + common sense
effective teaching
rote learning
outlining
equity pedagogy
15. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
parts of a direct instruction lesson
reversibility
constructivist theories of learning
summative evaluations
16. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
generativity vs self-absorption
variable
randomized field experiment
operant conditioning
17. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
discovery learning
intelligence quotient (IQ)
random assignment
postconventional level of morality
18. 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.
continuous theories of development
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
schema theory
operant conditioning
19. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
variable
criterion-references interpretations
classical conditioning
locus of control
20. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
constructivist theories of learning
foreclosure
achievement motivation
verbal learning
21. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
psychosocial crisis
assimilation
multiple intelligences
prejudice reduction
22. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
self-regulation
stimuli
positive correlation
learning probes
23. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
reflexes
identity diffusion
elaboration
locus of control
24. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
fixed-interval schedule
external validity
classical conditioning
cognitive behavior modification
25. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
mnemonics
compensatory education
overlapping
distributed practice
26. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
consequences
cognitive development
classical conditioning
secondary reinforcer
27. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)
preoperational stage
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
interference
autonomy vs. doubt
28. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
levels-of-processing theory
sensorimotor stage
intelligence quotient (IQ)
intimacy vs. isolation
29. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
learned helplessness
summarizing
transitivity
massed practice
30. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
outlining
schemata
cognitive apprenticeship
zone of proximal development
31. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
overlapping
content integration
assimilation
learned helplessness
32. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
cooperative scripting
dual code theory of memory
preoperational stage
Blooms Taxonomy
33. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
individualized instruction
instrumental enrichment
preconventional level of morality
interference
34. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
knowledge construction
educational psychology
reciprocal teaching
cognitive development
35. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
generativity vs self-absorption
psychosocial crisis
concept
enactment
36. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
outlining
transfer of learning
sex-role behavior
presentation punishment
37. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
Blooms Taxonomy
direct instruction
external validity
parallel play
38. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
procedural memory
primary reinforcer
lesson clarity
moral dilemmas
39. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
punishment
uncorrelated variables
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
preoperational stage
40. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
bilingual education
laboratory experiment
performance goals
developmentally appropriate education
41. 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.
two-way bilingual education
english immersion
critical thinking
mediated learning
42. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
schema theory
industry vs. inferiority
psychosocial crisis
attribution theory
43. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
positive correlation
variable-interval schedule.
industry vs. inferiority
44. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
primary reinforcer
top-down processing
perception
elaboration
45. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
process-product studies
behavioral learning theories
wait time
secondary reinforcer
46. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
outlining
negative correlation
control group
stimuli
47. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
experimental group
laboratory experiment
treatment
48. Play that occurs alone.
postconventional level of morality
solitary play
emergent literacy
antecedent stimuli
49. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
schedule of reinforcement
pedagogy
direct instruction
criterion-related evidence
50. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
pegword method
critical thinking
proactive inhibition
criterion-related evidence