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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
affective objectives
teacher efficacy
stimuli
transitional bilingual education
2. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.
foreclosure
compensatory education
integrity vs. despiar
discovery learning
3. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
social comparison
large muscle development
two-way bilingual education
direct instruction
4. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
constructivism
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
top-down processing
schedule of reinforcement
5. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
postconventional level of morality
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
negative correlation
formal operational stage
6. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
experiment
sensory register
attention
continuous theories of development
7. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
observational learning
formal operational stage
equilibration
individualized instruction
8. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
within-class ability grouping
content evidence
modeling
small muscle development
9. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
mnemonics
uncorrelated variables
meaningful learning
transfer of learning
10. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
recency effect
sensorimotor stage
knowledge construction
11. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
initiative vs. guilt
removal punishment
bottom-up processing
loci method
12. Events that precede behaviors
primacy effect
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
antecedent stimuli
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
13. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
content integration
vicarious learning
learning probes
proactive inhibition
14. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.
self-regulation
compensatory preschool programs
private speech
conservation
15. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
presentation punishment
shaping
learned helplessness
effective teaching
16. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
intelligence quotient (IQ)
summarizing
reciprocal teaching
criterion-related evidence
17. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
attention
discovery learning
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
multiple intelligences
18. 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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19. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
schemata
mental set
sensorimotor stage
randomized field experiment
20. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
sex-role behavior
performance goals
Blooms Taxonomy
Skinner box
21. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
derived scores
multiple intelligences
massed practice
classical conditioning
22. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
self-esteem
conditioned stimulus
social learning theory
learning probes
23. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
initial-letter strategies
negative correlation
schemata
short-term/ working memory
24. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
seatwork
assertive discipline
locus of control
operant conditioning
25. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
advance organizers
centration
regrouping
seriation
26. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
laboratory experiment
procedural memory
egocentric
27. Perception of and response to different stimuli
egocentric
analogies
unconditioned stimulus
discrimination
28. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
learning goals
achievement motivation
performance goals
wait time
29. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
autonomous morality
expectancy theory
initial-letter strategies
critical thinking
30. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
operant conditioning
reflexes
concept
prejudice reduction
31. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
cooperative scripting
cooperative play
experiment
learning
32. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
cooperative play
randomized field experiment
variable
two-way bilingual education
33. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)
expectancy-valence model
cognitive behavior modification
moral dilemmas
semantic memory
34. A person's interpretation of stimuli
foreclosure
massed practice
perception
Skinner box
35. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
reinforcer
intentionality
external locus of control
metacognition
36. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
review prerequisites
operant conditioning
free-recall learning
long-term memory
37. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
law
between-class ability grouping
control group
multiple intelligences
38. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
metacognitive skills
Premack Principle
conventional level of morality
reversibility
39. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards
intelligence quotient (IQ)
untracking
semantic memory
summarizing
40. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
instrumental enrichment
sensorimotor stage
cooperative scripting
communicating positive expectations
41. 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.
prosocial behaviors
egocentric
bilingual education
emergent literacy
42. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
sign systems
rule-example-rule
cooperative scripting
critical thinking
43. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
internal validity
recency effect
enactment
inferred reality
44. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
elaboration
growth needs
between-class ability grouping
intimacy vs. isolation
45. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
serial learning
heteronomous morality
equity pedagogy
intelligence quotient (IQ)
46. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.
performance goals
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
levels-of-processing theory
discovery learning
47. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
criterion-references interpretations
serial learning
transitivity
content evidence
48. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
bottom-up processing
autonomous morality
seatwork
compensatory preschool programs
49. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
imagery
adaptation
prejudice reduction
top-down processing
50. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
long-term memory
pedagogy