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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
compensatory preschool programs
heteronomous morality
summarizing
independent practice
2. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention
classical conditioning
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
small muscle development
rehearsal
3. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
pegword method
norm-referenced interpretations
nongraded programs
interference
4. 5 to 9 pieces of information
vicarious learning
conditioned stimulus
working memory capacity
moral dilemmas
5. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.
constructivism
foreclosure
knowledge construction
reversibility
6. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
Premack Principle
psychosocial crisis
fixed-interval schedule
long-term memory
7. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
keyword method
associative play
cooperative learning
schemes
8. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
cognitive apprenticeship
massed practice
generativity vs self-absorption
keyword method
9. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.
nongraded programs
initial-letter strategies
self-esteem
cognitive apprenticeship
10. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
compensatory preschool programs
group contingencies
heteronomous morality
loci method
11. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
principle
performance goals
automaticity
motivation
12. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
norm-referenced interpretations
achievement motivation
worked examples
external validity
13. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
centration
summarizing
prosocial behaviors
recency effect
14. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
cues
analogies
episodic memory
private speech
15. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
self-regulated learners
expectancy-valence model
moral dilemmas
learning probes
16. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
criterion-related evidence
schemes
small muscle development
assimilation
17. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
cognitive behavior modification
discontinuous theories of development
solitary play
retroactive facilitation
18. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
private speech
autonomy vs. doubt
massed practice
major stage theorists
19. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
regrouping
advance organizers
private speech
mental set
20. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
vicarious learning
regrouping
intimacy vs. isolation
principle
21. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
content integration
working memory capacity
prejudice reduction
bilingual education
22. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).
mediated learning
developmentally appropriate education
external validity
autonomous morality
23. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
initial-letter strategies
recency effect
major stage theorists
generativity vs self-absorption
24. 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
schemes
norm-referenced interpretations
regrouping
two-way bilingual education
25. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
action research
external locus of control
compensatory education
flashbulb memory
26. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.
self-questioning strategies
psychosocial theory
presentation punishment
PQ4R method
27. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
seatwork
parallel play
random assignment
laboratory experiment
28. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
foreclosure
extinction
shaping
classical conditioning
29. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
sensorimotor stage
instrumental enrichment
assertive discipline
early intervention program
30. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
within-class ability grouping
note-taking
intimacy vs. isolation
concept
31. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
expectancy-valence model
bilingual education
primacy effect
moral dilemmas
32. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
equilibration
short-term/ working memory
reversibility
cooperative scripting
33. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
seriation
classical conditioning
overlapping
punishment
34. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
major stage theorists
aptitude-treatment interaction
stimuli
english immersion
35. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
single-case experiment
deficiency needs
transitivity
note-taking
36. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
teacher efficacy
equilibration
initiative vs. guilt
conservation
37. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
neutral stimuli
cues
assertive discipline
mapping
38. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
rote learning
unconditioned stimulus
review prerequisites
flashbulb memory
39. The study of learning and teaching.
punishment
cooperative learning
educational psychology
generativity vs self-absorption
40. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
learning probes
pedagogy
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
metacognition
41. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
automaticity
extinction
object permanence
identity achievement
42. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
multiple intelligences
variable
conventional level of morality
inferred reality
43. 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
levels-of-processing theory
proactive facilitation
outlining
Blooms Taxonomy
44. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
maintenance
regrouping
communicating positive expectations
theory
45. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
enactment
PQ4R method
outlining
free-recall learning
46. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
consequences
sign systems
inferred reality
intimacy vs. isolation
47. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
compensatory preschool programs
seatwork
descriptive research
48. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
equilibration
aptitude-treatment interaction
parallel play
applied behavior analysis
49. 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
choral responses
pegword method
untracking
mapping
50. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
choral responses
reciprocal teaching
scaffolding
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)