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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
elaboration
calling order
reflectivity
bilingual education
2. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
transitivity
educational psychology
initial-letter strategies
intelligence quotient (IQ)
3. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
parallel play
home-based reinforcement strategies
identity diffusion
between-class ability grouping
4. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
randomized field experiment
recency effect
laboratory experiment
behavioral learning theories
5. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
sex-role behavior
summative evaluations
reciprocal teaching
integrity vs. despiar
6. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
maintenance
analogies
transfer of learning
rule-example-rule
7. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
variable-interval schedule.
parallel play
choral responses
mnemonics
8. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
sign systems
meaningful learning
long-term memory
emergent literacy
9. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
conditioned stimulus
review prerequisites
expectancy-valence model
self-regulated learners
10. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
discrimination
intimacy vs. isolation
object permanence
11. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
mental set
summarizing
QAIT model
reversibility
12. 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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13. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
heteronomous morality
self-esteem
massed practice
mapping
14. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
associative play
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
means-ends analysis
secondary reinforcer
15. Play that occurs alone.
solitary play
semantic memory
seriation
within-class ability grouping
16. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
process-product studies
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
intentionality
laboratory experiment
17. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
correlational study
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
paired-associate learning
cooperative scripting
18. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
primacy effect
keyword method
reflexes
19. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
variable
cooperative play
antecedent stimuli
correlational study
20. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
self-questioning strategies
centration
instrumental enrichment
sex-role behavior
21. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
conservation
development
foreclosure
learning goals
22. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
long-term memory
independent practice
semantic memory
bilingual education
23. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
self-esteem
communicating positive expectations
single-case experiment
withitness
24. A person's interpretation of stimuli
Blooms Taxonomy
perception
intentionality
intelligence
25. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
paired-associate learning
calling order
extinction
preconventional level of morality
26. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
external validity
preoperational stage
adaptation
advance organizers
27. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
shaping
foreclosure
overlapping
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
28. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
preoperational stage
seatwork
recency effect
inert knowledge
29. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
equity pedagogy
compensatory education
shaping
intimacy vs. isolation
30. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
unconditioned stimulus
verbal learning
content integration
31. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
emergent literacy
locus of control
worked examples
neutral stimuli
32. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
punishment
developmentally appropriate education
loci method
automaticity
33. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
growth needs
dual code theory of memory
removal punishment
class inclusion
34. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.
behavioral learning theories
enactment
individualized instruction
unconditioned stimulus
35. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
adaptation
intimacy vs. isolation
outlining
choral responses
36. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.
generativity vs self-absorption
serial learning
reversibility
initial-letter strategies
37. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
proactive facilitation
secondary reinforcer
theory
content integration
38. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
cooperative play
aptitude-treatment interaction
trust vs. mistrust
expectancy theory
39. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
summative evaluations
self-concept
review prerequisites
flashbulb memory
40. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
attribution theory
summative evaluations
autonomous morality
reversibility
41. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.
early intervention program
prosocial behaviors
constructivism
critical thinking
42. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
schedule of reinforcement
nformation-processing theory
between-class ability grouping
inferred reality
43. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
initial-letter strategies
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
heteronomous morality
independent practice
44. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
moratorium
prejudice reduction
variable-interval schedule.
operant conditioning
45. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
between-class ability grouping
punishment
attribution theory
discovery learning
46. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.
long-term memory
inferred reality
advance organizers
retroactive facilitation
47. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
sensorimotor stage
discontinuous theories of development
laboratory experiment
achievement motivation
48. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
moral dilemmas
foreclosure
primacy effect
pegword method
49. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
primacy effect
self-regulation
cognitive development
prejudice reduction
50. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
postconventional level of morality
external locus of control
rule-example-rule
preoperational stage