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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
recency effect
motivation
cooperative play
small muscle development
2. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
levels-of-processing theory
major stage theorists
short-term/ working memory
unconditioned stimulus
3. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
experiment
accommodation
cooperative scripting
levels-of-processing theory
4. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
intelligence quotient (IQ)
industry vs. inferiority
behavior-content matrix
neutral stimuli
5. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
centration
elaboration
short-term/ working memory
prosocial behaviors
6. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
transitivity
cooperative learning
cognitive development
law
7. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
retroactive inhibition
self-actualization
egocentric
applied behavior analysis
8. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question
cooperative learning
primary reinforcer
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
identity vs. role confusion
9. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
rule-example-rule
affective objectives
continuous theories of development
reinforcer
10. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
proactive facilitation
wait time
intelligence
advance organizers
11. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward
equilibration
locus of control
expectancy theory
knowledge construction
12. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
expectancy-valence model
transitional bilingual education
summarizing
continuous theories of development
13. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
cooperative play
untracking
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
worked examples
14. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
schemes
recency effect
equity pedagogy
equilibration
15. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
intelligence quotient (IQ)
group contingencies
wait time
emergent literacy
16. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
seatwork
self-regulation
proactive inhibition
initiative vs. guilt
17. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
bilingual education
intimacy vs. isolation
direct instruction
discovery learning
18. Learning of a list of items in any order.
uncorrelated variables
sensorimotor stage
free-recall learning
mnemonics
19. Events that precede behaviors
antecedent stimuli
english immersion
lesson clarity
expectancy theory
20. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
conservation
psychosocial theory
discovery learning
achievement motivation
21. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
elaboration
intentionality
withitness
multiple intelligences
22. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
intimacy vs. isolation
episodic memory
preconventional level of morality
scaffolding
23. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
top-down processing
internal validity
social comparison
fixed-interval schedule
24. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
formal operational stage
Premack Principle
early intervention program
observational learning
25. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)
experiment
identity vs. role confusion
applied behavior analysis
serial learning
26. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
reversibility
large muscle development
identity achievement
recency effect
27. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
Joplin Plan
transfer of learning
discovery learning
perception
28. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
perception
independent practice
overlapping
cooperative play
29. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
performance goals
criterion-references interpretations
self-questioning strategies
paired bilingual education
30. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
action research
development
mediated learning
31. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension
learning
early intervention program
reciprocal teaching
norm-referenced interpretations
32. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
control group
neutral stimuli
developmentally appropriate education
behavioral learning theories
33. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
solitary play
developmentally appropriate education
schemata
recency effect
34. A person's interpretation of stimuli
transitional bilingual education
learning goals
perception
cognitive apprenticeship
35. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.
preoperational stage
major stage theorists
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
generalization
36. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
self-regulated learners
attribution theory
continuous theories of development
parts of a direct instruction lesson
37. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
sensory register
imagery
transfer of learning
prosocial behaviors
38. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
prejudice reduction
conservation
punishment
procedural memory
39. 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
parallel play
autonomy vs. doubt
integrity vs. despiar
40. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
autonomous morality
discontinuous theories of development
procedural memory
parallel play
41. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
learning goals
external validity
independent practice
discovery learning
42. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
QAIT model
bottom-up processing
positive correlation
heteronomous morality
43. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
unconditioned stimulus
untracking
nformation-processing theory
schemes
44. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.
working memory capacity
critical thinking
centration
group contingencies
45. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
removal punishment
means-ends analysis
primary reinforcer
perception
46. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.
verbal learning
nformation-processing theory
home-based reinforcement strategies
instrumental enrichment
47. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
choral responses
applied behavior analysis
conditioned stimulus
criterion-related evidence
48. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
centration
inert knowledge
dual code theory of memory
large muscle development
49. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
parallel play
modeling
punishment
positive correlation
50. 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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