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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
english immersion
adaptation
principle
reversibility
2. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
self-regulated learners
variable
nongraded programs
3. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
principle
criterion-references interpretations
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
prosocial behaviors
4. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
law
concrete operational stage
sensory register
norm-referenced interpretations
5. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
schema theory
seatwork
scaffolding
cognitive apprenticeship
6. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
proactive inhibition
free-recall learning
formal operational stage
flashbulb memory
7. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
self-regulation
cognitive learning theories
communicating positive expectations
self-actualization
8. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
randomized field experiment
internal validity
aptitude-treatment interaction
Joplin Plan
9. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
autonomy vs. doubt
unconditioned stimulus
motivation
self-regulated learners
10. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
private speech
aptitude-treatment interaction
positive correlation
associative play
11. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow
inert knowledge
behavioral learning theories
growth needs
transitional bilingual education
12. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
social learning theory
internal validity
schemata
recency effect
13. 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
punishment
untracking
summative evaluations
generalization
14. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
advance organizers
paired bilingual education
retroactive facilitation
learned helplessness
15. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
parallel play
uncorrelated variables
reflectivity
moratorium
16. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
conservation
psychosocial theory
self-regulation
procedural memory
17. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
imagery
extinction burst
random assignment
large muscle development
18. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
schemata
constructivist theories of learning
analogies
locus of control
19. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
intentionality
proactive inhibition
equity pedagogy
operant conditioning
20. 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)
concrete operational stage
learned helplessness
randomized field experiment
loci method
21. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
knowledge construction
enactment
integrity vs. despiar
discontinuous theories of development
22. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
self-regulation
elaboration
automaticity
Joplin Plan
23. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
prosocial behaviors
laboratory experiment
neutral stimuli
cues
24. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
expectancy theory
automaticity
generativity vs self-absorption
cooperative scripting
25. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
lesson clarity
motivation
nformation-processing theory
presentation punishment
26. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
working memory capacity
presentation punishment
generativity vs self-absorption
expectancy-valence model
27. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
verbal learning
cooperative play
mediated learning
treatment
28. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
foreclosure
learning probes
autonomous morality
psychosocial theory
29. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
psychosocial theory
associative play
transitional bilingual education
primary reinforcer
30. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
paired-associate learning
conservation
QAIT model
positive correlation
31. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
class inclusion
locus of control
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
major stage theorists
32. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
zone of proximal development
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
preconventional level of morality
autonomy vs. doubt
33. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
external validity
levels-of-processing theory
imagery
instrumental enrichment
34. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
uncorrelated variables
control group
meaningful learning
multiple intelligences
35. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
generativity vs self-absorption
lesson clarity
presentation punishment
self-questioning strategies
36. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
seatwork
dual code theory of memory
transfer of learning
lesson clarity
37. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
perception
readiness training
egocentric
outlining
38. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
sensorimotor stage
short-term/ working memory
cognitive apprenticeship
attribution theory
39. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
observational learning
individualized instruction
expectancy-valence model
mnemonics
40. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
intimacy vs. isolation
readiness training
extinction
expectancy theory
41. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
sex-role behavior
nongraded programs
mediated learning
self-esteem
42. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.
modeling
analogies
paired-associate learning
uncorrelated variables
43. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
identity diffusion
constructivist theories of learning
assimilation
equilibration
44. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
distributed practice
calling order
applied behavior analysis
Skinner box
45. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
continuous theories of development
private speech
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
recency effect
46. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
affective objectives
dual code theory of memory
imagery
reinforcer
47. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
procedural memory
discovery learning
fixed-interval schedule
summarizing
48. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
random assignment
uncorrelated variables
levels-of-processing theory
formative evaluation
49. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
outlining
content evidence
psychosocial crisis
PQ4R method
50. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
knowledge construction
autonomous morality
conventional level of morality
rule-example-rule