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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.
self-questioning strategies
assimilation
QAIT model
nformation-processing theory
2. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.
effective use of independent practice time
levels-of-processing theory
independent practice
behavior-content matrix
3. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
early intervention program
massed practice
removal punishment
external validity
4. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
behavior-content matrix
summarizing
reinforcer
transitivity
5. 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)
inert knowledge
autonomy vs. doubt
long-term memory
sensorimotor stage
6. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
laboratory experiment
untracking
industry vs. inferiority
worked examples
7. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
external validity
social comparison
principle
proactive facilitation
8. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
primacy effect
critical thinking
sign systems
9. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
discovery learning
self-questioning strategies
prosocial behaviors
within-class ability grouping
10. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.
growth needs
operant conditioning
recency effect
analogies
11. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
preoperational stage
formal operational stage
compensatory preschool programs
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
12. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
analogies
meaningful learning
mediated learning
between-class ability grouping
13. Learning of a list of items in any order.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
note-taking
free-recall learning
preconventional level of morality
14. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
experiment
fixed-interval schedule
positive correlation
cooperative play
15. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
psychosocial theory
shaping
within-class ability grouping
small muscle development
16. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
secondary reinforcer
achievement motivation
bottom-up processing
advance organizers
17. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson
verbal learning
reflexes
mental set
constructivist theories of learning
18. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
verbal learning
transfer of learning
self-regulated learners
cognitive behavior modification
19. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
initiative vs. guilt
outlining
performance goals
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
20. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
psychosocial crisis
levels-of-processing theory
scaffolding
semantic memory
21. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
meaningful learning
norm-referenced interpretations
intimacy vs. isolation
reflectivity
22. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
enactment
prejudice reduction
critical thinking
compensatory preschool programs
23. 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
outlining
sensorimotor stage
overlapping
24. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
instrumental enrichment
metacognition
flashbulb memory
social learning theory
25. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
experimental group
teacher efficacy
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
parts of a direct instruction lesson
26. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
rote learning
choral responses
semantic memory
parallel play
27. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
top-down processing
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
achievement motivation
integrity vs. despiar
28. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.
analogies
short-term/ working memory
intentionality
applied behavior analysis
29. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
external validity
constructivism
initiative vs. guilt
note-taking
30. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
content integration
sensory register
top-down processing
reversibility
31. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
conventional level of morality
paired-associate learning
schedule of reinforcement
effective use of independent practice time
32. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
interference
attention
moratorium
principle
33. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
primacy effect
law
reinforcer
independent practice
34. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
reciprocal teaching
enactment
parts of a direct instruction lesson
correlational study
35. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
sex-role behavior
parts of a direct instruction lesson
metacognition
retroactive inhibition
36. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
top-down processing
teacher efficacy
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
learned helplessness
37. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
top-down processing
assimilation
development
presentation punishment
38. Events that precede behaviors
generativity vs self-absorption
discontinuous theories of development
antecedent stimuli
rehearsal
39. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
nformation-processing theory
effective teaching
flashbulb memory
external validity
40. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
Joplin Plan
sex-role behavior
accommodation
teacher efficacy
41. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
content evidence
unconditioned stimulus
vicarious learning
self-questioning strategies
42. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
nformation-processing theory
adaptation
imagery
formative evaluation
43. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
instrumental enrichment
associative play
rote learning
flashbulb memory
44. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
individualized instruction
autonomous morality
serial learning
concept
45. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
inert knowledge
punishment
group contingencies
self-actualization
46. 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.
class inclusion
external validity
mediated learning
trust vs. mistrust
47. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
overlapping
primacy effect
dual code theory of memory
criterion-related evidence
48. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
moral dilemmas
behavior-content matrix
between-class ability grouping
action research
49. A person's interpretation of stimuli
sensory register
integrity vs. despiar
perception
proactive inhibition
50. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
formal operational stage
pegword method
vicarious learning
small muscle development