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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
working memory capacity
outlining
stimuli
keyword method
2. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities
Premack Principle
inert knowledge
solitary play
transitivity
3. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
compensatory education
english immersion
reflectivity
perception
4. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
cooperative scripting
levels-of-processing theory
neutral stimuli
5. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
theory
achievement motivation
cooperative scripting
descriptive research
6. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
pedagogy
parallel play
shaping
self-questioning strategies
7. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
independent practice
variable-interval schedule.
conventional level of morality
readiness training
8. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
experimental group
self-esteem
sensory register
solitary play
9. 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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10. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
cooperative scripting
working memory capacity
reflectivity
mock participation
11. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
laboratory experiment
effective teaching
constructivism
reinforcer
12. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.
generativity vs self-absorption
mediated learning
seriation
derived scores
13. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
attribution theory
intentionality
compensatory education
early intervention program
14. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
self-esteem
retroactive inhibition
seriation
conditioned stimulus
15. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
bottom-up processing
solitary play
review prerequisites
egocentric
16. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
conditioned stimulus
loci method
variable
expectancy theory
17. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
primary reinforcer
self-actualization
moratorium
criterion-related evidence
18. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
long-term memory
means-ends analysis
secondary reinforcer
19. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
criterion-related evidence
content evidence
paired bilingual education
learning probes
20. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
accommodation
constructivism
review prerequisites
learned helplessness
21. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
advance organizers
pegword method
autonomous morality
cognitive learning theories
22. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
psychosocial crisis
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
elaboration
experimental group
23. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
compensatory preschool programs
behavioral learning theories
development
correlational study
24. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
assertive discipline
outlining
cooperative scripting
removal punishment
25. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
review prerequisites
punishment
enactment
transfer of learning
26. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
constructivist theories of learning
egocentric
formal operational stage
fixed-interval schedule
27. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
content evidence
social comparison
removal punishment
solitary play
28. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)
constructivist theories of learning
rule-example-rule
initial-letter strategies
trust vs. mistrust
29. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
early intervention program
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
social learning theory
uncorrelated variables
30. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
consequences
prosocial behaviors
sex-role behavior
primacy effect
31. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
analogies
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
discontinuous theories of development
identity achievement
32. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
reciprocal teaching
seriation
levels-of-processing theory
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
33. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
verbal learning
reversibility
short-term/ working memory
nformation-processing theory
34. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
note-taking
psychosocial crisis
self-actualization
verbal learning
35. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
heteronomous morality
presentation punishment
random assignment
interference
36. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.
multiple intelligences
overlapping
levels-of-processing theory
compensatory preschool programs
37. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
Skinner box
procedural memory
sign systems
within-class ability grouping
38. 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.
object permanence
scaffolding
pegword method
shaping
39. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
control group
review prerequisites
autonomy vs. doubt
40. Research + common sense
self-regulation
centration
choral responses
effective teaching
41. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
self-regulation
learned helplessness
intimacy vs. isolation
development
42. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
development
social comparison
automaticity
multiple intelligences
43. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
autonomy vs. doubt
achievement motivation
cooperative scripting
criterion-related evidence
44. 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
observational learning
punishment
intimacy vs. isolation
large muscle development
45. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
self-actualization
enactment
within-class ability grouping
experimental group
46. Continuation (of behavior)
conventional level of morality
maintenance
schedule of reinforcement
bottom-up processing
47. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
communicating positive expectations
positive correlation
foreclosure
stimuli
48. Play that occurs alone.
early intervention program
moral dilemmas
solitary play
expectancy theory
49. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
social learning theory
recency effect
treatment
presentation punishment
50. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
learning goals
instrumental enrichment
means-ends analysis
effective teaching