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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
self-concept
locus of control
variable
random assignment
2. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
antecedent stimuli
behavioral learning theories
reinforcer
assimilation
3. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
learning probes
perception
serial learning
multiple intelligences
4. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
content evidence
affective objectives
reversibility
communicating positive expectations
5. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.
compensatory preschool programs
cooperative play
associative play
experimental group
6. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.
self-esteem
large muscle development
emergent literacy
elaboration
7. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si
paired-associate learning
presentation punishment
free-recall learning
Blooms Taxonomy
8. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
paired bilingual education
formative evaluation
sensory register
initial-letter strategies
9. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
meaningful learning
content integration
keyword method
10. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
positive correlation
mock participation
interference
top-down processing
11. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)
schemata
psychosocial theory
initiative vs. guilt
control group
12. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
control group
communicating positive expectations
behavior-content matrix
psychosocial crisis
13. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
between-class ability grouping
learning
achievement motivation
proactive facilitation
14. 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
summarizing
reciprocal teaching
rote learning
enactment
15. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
derived scores
conventional level of morality
seriation
episodic memory
16. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
heteronomous morality
object permanence
nongraded programs
metacognition
17. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
Skinner box
modeling
conditioned stimulus
cooperative scripting
18. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
top-down processing
rote learning
early intervention program
single-case experiment
19. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
parts of a direct instruction lesson
constructivist theories of learning
scaffolding
reflexes
20. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
procedural memory
locus of control
verbal learning
punishment
21. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
individualized instruction
generativity vs self-absorption
development
wait time
22. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
note-taking
review prerequisites
effective use of independent practice time
semantic memory
23. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
self-regulation
elaboration
operant conditioning
reflectivity
24. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
equilibration
semantic memory
aptitude-treatment interaction
recency effect
25. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
neutral stimuli
teacher efficacy
action research
classical conditioning
26. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
self-questioning strategies
loci method
early intervention program
moratorium
27. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor
small muscle development
transitional bilingual education
industry vs. inferiority
effective use of independent practice time
28. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
moral dilemmas
reflectivity
bilingual education
schemes
29. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
between-class ability grouping
verbal learning
PQ4R method
development
30. Continuation (of behavior)
rule-example-rule
self-esteem
analogies
maintenance
31. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
experiment
knowledge construction
early intervention program
seatwork
32. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
knowledge construction
continuous theories of development
uncorrelated variables
self-regulation
33. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
assertive discipline
affective objectives
conventional level of morality
reflexes
34. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards
untracking
sensorimotor stage
transitional bilingual education
mental set
35. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
direct instruction
large muscle development
zone of proximal development
concrete operational stage
36. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
short-term/ working memory
content integration
cognitive behavior modification
readiness training
37. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
fixed-interval schedule
conditioned stimulus
assimilation
advance organizers
38. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
derived scores
reversibility
within-class ability grouping
rule-example-rule
39. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
self-regulation
achievement motivation
distributed practice
two-way bilingual education
40. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
retroactive inhibition
automaticity
means-ends analysis
retroactive facilitation
41. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
metacognition
autonomous morality
episodic memory
pegword method
42. Learning of a list of items in any order.
cognitive development
control group
self-actualization
free-recall learning
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
consequences
criterion-related evidence
metacognitive skills
norm-referenced interpretations
44. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.
continuous theories of development
independent practice
heteronomous morality
positive correlation
45. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.
transitional bilingual education
equity pedagogy
self-regulated learners
levels-of-processing theory
46. 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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47. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
formal operational stage
dual code theory of memory
positive correlation
learned helplessness
48. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
individualized instruction
action research
direct instruction
external locus of control
49. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
knowledge construction
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
object permanence
removal punishment
50. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)
postconventional level of morality
extinction burst
aptitude-treatment interaction
cognitive behavior modification