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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
automaticity
identity vs. role confusion
2. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
moratorium
attention
shaping
primacy effect
3. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
rule-example-rule
extinction
retroactive inhibition
self-esteem
4. 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
levels-of-processing theory
recency effect
sex-role behavior
5. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
formal operational stage
process-product studies
psychosocial theory
6. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
bilingual education
effective use of independent practice time
industry vs. inferiority
correlational study
7. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
autonomous morality
initial-letter strategies
constructivist theories of learning
knowledge construction
8. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
educational psychology
free-recall learning
foreclosure
overlapping
9. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
conservation
deficiency needs
criterion-references interpretations
semantic memory
10. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
direct instruction
transitivity
calling order
pedagogy
11. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
psychosocial theory
semantic memory
identity achievement
descriptive research
12. 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
constructivist theories of learning
regrouping
means-ends analysis
content evidence
13. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
accommodation
locus of control
large muscle development
integrity vs. despiar
14. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
mental set
primary reinforcer
initiative vs. guilt
15. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
QAIT model
fixed-interval schedule
learned helplessness
prosocial behaviors
16. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
attention
attribution theory
action research
17. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
associative play
summative evaluations
psychosocial crisis
sensorimotor stage
18. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
maintenance
large muscle development
mnemonics
paired bilingual education
19. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
independent practice
behavioral learning theories
stimuli
object permanence
20. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
self-regulated learners
motivation
Skinner box
compensatory preschool programs
21. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
short-term/ working memory
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
foreclosure
derived scores
22. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
multiple intelligences
interference
identity diffusion
inert knowledge
23. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
communicating positive expectations
Joplin Plan
verbal learning
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
24. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
cognitive apprenticeship
home-based reinforcement strategies
concrete operational stage
extinction burst
25. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)
negative correlation
heteronomous morality
identity diffusion
external validity
26. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
Joplin Plan
private speech
discovery learning
between-class ability grouping
27. Research + common sense
conservation
reciprocal teaching
intimacy vs. isolation
effective teaching
28. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
self-concept
intentionality
unconditioned stimulus
mock participation
29. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
postconventional level of morality
stimuli
summarizing
effective teaching
30. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
randomized field experiment
independent practice
english immersion
prosocial behaviors
31. 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.
nformation-processing theory
maintenance
heteronomous morality
formal operational stage
32. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
moral dilemmas
descriptive research
equity pedagogy
33. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.
performance goals
individualized instruction
accommodation
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
34. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
reinforcer
presentation punishment
top-down processing
sensorimotor stage
35. 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
sign systems
trust vs. mistrust
observational learning
retroactive facilitation
36. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
prosocial behaviors
untracking
direct instruction
retroactive facilitation
37. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
learned helplessness
retroactive inhibition
flashbulb memory
negative correlation
38. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
mock participation
single-case experiment
adaptation
perception
39. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
metacognition
shaping
behavior-content matrix
learning goals
40. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
rehearsal
variable
Skinner box
teacher efficacy
41. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.
PQ4R method
reversibility
uncorrelated variables
regrouping
42. 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
direct instruction
intelligence quotient (IQ)
top-down processing
43. 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.
self-regulation
reversibility
associative play
postconventional level of morality
44. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
assimilation
early intervention program
cooperative scripting
compensatory preschool programs
45. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
classical conditioning
continuous theories of development
affective objectives
intimacy vs. isolation
46. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
negative correlation
equity pedagogy
formative evaluation
experimental group
47. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
teacher efficacy
advance organizers
attention
experiment
48. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
reflectivity
derived scores
initial-letter strategies
presentation punishment
49. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
action research
foreclosure
autonomy vs. doubt
loci method
50. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
reversibility
Premack Principle
note-taking
demonstrations - models - and illustrations