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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
summarizing
reflectivity
enactment
nformation-processing theory
2. Environmental conditions that activate the senses
multiple intelligences
growth needs
english immersion
stimuli
3. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
growth needs
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
communicating positive expectations
multiple intelligences
4. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
interference
descriptive research
constructivist theories of learning
Skinner box
5. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
laboratory experiment
metacognition
punishment
expectancy-valence model
6. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
postconventional level of morality
criterion-related evidence
wait time
developmentally appropriate education
7. Learning of a list of items in any order.
pegword method
schedule of reinforcement
cues
free-recall learning
8. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
lesson clarity
zone of proximal development
cooperative learning
adaptation
9. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
serial learning
treatment
content integration
primary reinforcer
10. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels
criterion-related evidence
solitary play
regrouping
social comparison
11. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
foreclosure
Skinner box
content evidence
enactment
12. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
development
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
industry vs. inferiority
13. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.
levels-of-processing theory
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
process-product studies
prejudice reduction
14. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
behavioral learning theories
action research
expectancy-valence model
loci method
15. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
content integration
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
initiative vs. guilt
centration
16. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
attention
early intervention program
cooperative play
sign systems
17. 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.
randomized field experiment
readiness training
laboratory experiment
metacognition
18. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
behavior-content matrix
retroactive inhibition
reciprocal teaching
summarizing
19. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
unconditioned stimulus
untracking
mnemonics
learned helplessness
20. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
outlining
initiative vs. guilt
process-product studies
direct instruction
21. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
self-questioning strategies
vicarious learning
extinction burst
equilibration
22. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.
formative evaluation
integrity vs. despiar
formal operational stage
mental set
23. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
direct instruction
schema theory
regrouping
vicarious learning
24. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
law
Blooms Taxonomy
seatwork
control group
25. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
outlining
behavior-content matrix
teacher efficacy
loci method
26. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
rehearsal
mental set
communicating positive expectations
intelligence
27. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes
transitivity
means-ends analysis
centration
cognitive learning theories
28. 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.
knowledge construction
class inclusion
external validity
communicating positive expectations
29. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
short-term/ working memory
content evidence
rule-example-rule
self-esteem
30. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
experimental group
learning goals
adaptation
compensatory education
31. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
teacher efficacy
deficiency needs
outlining
maintenance
32. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
identity achievement
cooperative scripting
random assignment
untracking
33. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
calling order
communicating positive expectations
PQ4R method
serial learning
34. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)
group contingencies
identity achievement
proactive facilitation
concrete operational stage
35. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
enactment
choral responses
assimilation
cognitive development
36. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
solitary play
major stage theorists
achievement motivation
small muscle development
37. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
flashbulb memory
compensatory preschool programs
object permanence
laboratory experiment
38. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.
analogies
equilibration
operant conditioning
inferred reality
39. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
social learning theory
lesson clarity
advance organizers
intelligence quotient (IQ)
40. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
rote learning
flashbulb memory
criterion-references interpretations
direct instruction
41. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
verbal learning
variable
primacy effect
law
42. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
generativity vs self-absorption
schemata
transitivity
criterion-references interpretations
43. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
content evidence
modeling
reciprocal teaching
advance organizers
44. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
within-class ability grouping
procedural memory
neutral stimuli
derived scores
45. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
parallel play
procedural memory
variable-interval schedule.
preoperational stage
46. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
emergent literacy
negative correlation
reversibility
self-actualization
47. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
discovery learning
social comparison
developmentally appropriate education
48. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
flashbulb memory
compensatory education
proactive inhibition
choral responses
49. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
identity vs. role confusion
trust vs. mistrust
internal validity
behavior-content matrix
50. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.
critical thinking
action research
readiness training
independent practice