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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
prejudice reduction
Premack Principle
postconventional level of morality
episodic memory
2. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
preoperational stage
motivation
foreclosure
formal operational stage
3. 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
inferred reality
observational learning
content evidence
positive correlation
4. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
stimuli
intentionality
identity diffusion
5. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
PQ4R method
initiative vs. guilt
massed practice
external validity
6. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
sign systems
neutral stimuli
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
content integration
7. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
advance organizers
postconventional level of morality
class inclusion
distributed practice
8. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
generalization
single-case experiment
compensatory education
primacy effect
9. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
punishment
presentation punishment
descriptive research
centration
10. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
performance goals
summarizing
constructivist theories of learning
adaptation
11. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
positive correlation
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
moratorium
transitivity
12. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
calling order
effective use of independent practice time
individualized instruction
retroactive inhibition
13. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
conservation
achievement motivation
control group
distributed practice
14. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
variable
content integration
dual code theory of memory
correlational study
15. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
review prerequisites
means-ends analysis
postconventional level of morality
self-regulated learners
16. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
self-actualization
extinction burst
constructivism
seriation
17. Events that precede behaviors
maintenance
sign systems
self-concept
antecedent stimuli
18. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
sensorimotor stage
home-based reinforcement strategies
equilibration
centration
19. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
paired bilingual education
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
identity vs. role confusion
readiness training
20. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
foreclosure
extinction burst
discovery learning
learning
21. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
cooperative play
adaptation
mnemonics
accommodation
22. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
variable-interval schedule.
fixed-interval schedule
cognitive apprenticeship
operant conditioning
23. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
discovery learning
enactment
review prerequisites
classical conditioning
24. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.
outlining
procedural memory
single-case experiment
zone of proximal development
25. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
enactment
associative play
learning probes
initiative vs. guilt
26. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
negative correlation
intimacy vs. isolation
schema theory
randomized field experiment
27. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
unconditioned stimulus
initiative vs. guilt
egocentric
top-down processing
28. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
learning goals
mnemonics
reflectivity
long-term memory
29. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
behavior-content matrix
shaping
cooperative scripting
assertive discipline
30. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
discovery learning
procedural memory
classical conditioning
scaffolding
31. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
instrumental enrichment
effective teaching
primacy effect
removal punishment
32. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
paired-associate learning
shaping
attention
extinction
33. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.
equilibration
rehearsal
serial learning
content evidence
34. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
compensatory preschool programs
generalization
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
foreclosure
35. The study of learning and teaching.
direct instruction
educational psychology
transitional bilingual education
analogies
36. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)
law
cooperative scripting
large muscle development
cognitive behavior modification
37. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
inert knowledge
cooperative scripting
assimilation
recency effect
38. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
moral dilemmas
semantic memory
schemata
criterion-related evidence
39. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
consequences
formal operational stage
removal punishment
loci method
40. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
motivation
discontinuous theories of development
rehearsal
multiple intelligences
41. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.
identity diffusion
action research
operant conditioning
locus of control
42. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
large muscle development
pegword method
expectancy-valence model
proactive facilitation
43. 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.
primacy effect
class inclusion
emergent literacy
recency effect
44. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
metacognitive skills
internal validity
learned helplessness
preoperational stage
45. A change in an individual that results from experience.
behavioral learning theories
lesson clarity
learning
short-term/ working memory
46. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
cooperative learning
metacognition
negative correlation
47. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
proactive inhibition
note-taking
episodic memory
postconventional level of morality
48. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention
associative play
rehearsal
industry vs. inferiority
procedural memory
49. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question
identity vs. role confusion
social learning theory
pedagogy
treatment
50. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
retroactive facilitation
reflectivity
vicarious learning
class inclusion