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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
behavioral learning theories
summative evaluations
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
self-regulated learners
2. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
distributed practice
descriptive research
foreclosure
discovery learning
3. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
metacognition
postconventional level of morality
short-term/ working memory
paired bilingual education
4. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
meaningful learning
performance goals
content evidence
assertive discipline
5. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
serial learning
treatment
expectancy theory
adaptation
6. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
proactive inhibition
attention
achievement motivation
social learning theory
7. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
centration
control group
equilibration
calling order
8. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
compensatory preschool programs
developmentally appropriate education
means-ends analysis
keyword method
9. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
Skinner box
development
intimacy vs. isolation
intelligence
10. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
motivation
achievement motivation
internal validity
conservation
11. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.
knowledge construction
identity vs. role confusion
process-product studies
self-questioning strategies
12. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
sensorimotor stage
initial-letter strategies
note-taking
mediated learning
13. 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.
effective teaching
autonomy vs. doubt
heteronomous morality
concrete operational stage
14. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
private speech
knowledge construction
correlational study
removal punishment
15. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
metacognition
behavioral learning theories
assimilation
intelligence
16. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
group contingencies
fixed-interval schedule
operant conditioning
foreclosure
17. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
cues
affective objectives
initial-letter strategies
reciprocal teaching
18. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
affective objectives
reflectivity
serial learning
dual code theory of memory
19. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
paired bilingual education
heteronomous morality
cognitive behavior modification
massed practice
20. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question
prejudice reduction
variable
identity vs. role confusion
performance goals
21. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
continuous theories of development
constructivist theories of learning
choral responses
pegword method
22. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
shaping
review prerequisites
learning probes
Premack Principle
23. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.
generalization
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
cooperative learning
content evidence
24. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
trust vs. mistrust
episodic memory
heteronomous morality
keyword method
25. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
multiple intelligences
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
uncorrelated variables
cues
26. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
overlapping
between-class ability grouping
centration
locus of control
27. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
between-class ability grouping
self-actualization
pedagogy
control group
28. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.
random assignment
primary reinforcer
self-regulation
presentation punishment
29. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes
formative evaluation
cognitive learning theories
retroactive inhibition
imagery
30. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson
scaffolding
self-questioning strategies
mental set
knowledge construction
31. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
elaboration
constructivist theories of learning
note-taking
free-recall learning
32. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
Blooms Taxonomy
mediated learning
identity diffusion
law
33. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
self-questioning strategies
heteronomous morality
readiness training
regrouping
34. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
retroactive facilitation
random assignment
preoperational stage
prosocial behaviors
35. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
compensatory education
means-ends analysis
meaningful learning
equity pedagogy
36. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
scaffolding
motivation
imagery
pedagogy
37. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
PQ4R method
centration
withitness
accommodation
38. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
preconventional level of morality
behavior-content matrix
moratorium
maintenance
39. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
seriation
schedule of reinforcement
pegword method
initial-letter strategies
40. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
working memory capacity
compensatory education
conditioned stimulus
communicating positive expectations
41. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
assimilation
mock participation
Premack Principle
seatwork
42. Continuation (of behavior)
maintenance
generalization
process-product studies
outlining
43. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
schema theory
conventional level of morality
individualized instruction
schemes
44. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.
pegword method
elaboration
within-class ability grouping
laboratory experiment
45. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
cooperative scripting
consequences
formative evaluation
within-class ability grouping
46. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
private speech
serial learning
massed practice
bilingual education
47. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
descriptive research
bilingual education
laboratory experiment
self-esteem
48. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
wait time
communicating positive expectations
deficiency needs
automaticity
49. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
equilibration
identity achievement
norm-referenced interpretations
free-recall learning
50. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
group contingencies
punishment
attribution theory
elaboration
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