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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
extinction
developmentally appropriate education
egocentric
attribution theory
2. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
external validity
outlining
behavior-content matrix
knowledge construction
3. A person's interpretation of stimuli
motivation
perception
reversibility
pegword method
4. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
control group
constructivism
automaticity
initial-letter strategies
5. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
learning goals
foreclosure
lesson clarity
Premack Principle
6. Research + common sense
cognitive apprenticeship
effective teaching
performance goals
heteronomous morality
7. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
random assignment
interference
within-class ability grouping
communicating positive expectations
8. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
Joplin Plan
punishment
short-term/ working memory
affective objectives
9. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
random assignment
concrete operational stage
proactive inhibition
cooperative learning
10. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.
self-questioning strategies
early intervention program
individualized instruction
working memory capacity
11. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
discrimination
sensory register
educational psychology
identity vs. role confusion
12. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
large muscle development
multiple intelligences
stimuli
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
13. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.
loci method
recency effect
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
means-ends analysis
14. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
affective objectives
industry vs. inferiority
effective use of independent practice time
semantic memory
15. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
process-product studies
punishment
social comparison
summarizing
16. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
communicating positive expectations
conservation
bottom-up processing
initial-letter strategies
17. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.
enactment
formal operational stage
expectancy theory
retroactive facilitation
18. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
educational psychology
procedural memory
classical conditioning
randomized field experiment
19. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
bottom-up processing
external validity
laboratory experiment
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
20. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
experimental group
theory
prosocial behaviors
affective objectives
21. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.
action research
process-product studies
analogies
attribution theory
22. 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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23. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
educational psychology
cues
rule-example-rule
theory
24. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
process-product studies
fixed-interval schedule
loci method
distributed practice
25. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)
teacher efficacy
law
applied behavior analysis
learned helplessness
26. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
early intervention program
Skinner box
summarizing
metacognitive skills
27. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
laboratory experiment
verbal learning
continuous theories of development
Skinner box
28. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)
elaboration
identity diffusion
effective use of independent practice time
compensatory preschool programs
29. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
direct instruction
worked examples
proactive facilitation
industry vs. inferiority
30. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
compensatory preschool programs
lesson clarity
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
schedule of reinforcement
31. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
learned helplessness
law
experimental group
proactive inhibition
32. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
conditioned stimulus
observational learning
small muscle development
seatwork
33. 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
positive correlation
verbal learning
untracking
shaping
34. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
cognitive development
cues
semantic memory
initial-letter strategies
35. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
sensorimotor stage
industry vs. inferiority
self-questioning strategies
elaboration
36. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
pegword method
rehearsal
bottom-up processing
foreclosure
37. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
self-esteem
cognitive apprenticeship
random assignment
correlational study
38. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.
paired bilingual education
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
integrity vs. despiar
conservation
39. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
major stage theorists
bottom-up processing
top-down processing
laboratory experiment
40. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
operant conditioning
major stage theorists
vicarious learning
aptitude-treatment interaction
41. Continuation (of behavior)
untracking
variable-interval schedule.
self-actualization
maintenance
42. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
self-regulation
initiative vs. guilt
autonomous morality
analogies
43. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
keyword method
theory
small muscle development
dual code theory of memory
44. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
meaningful learning
short-term/ working memory
locus of control
modeling
45. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.
external validity
behavioral learning theories
levels-of-processing theory
class inclusion
46. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
deficiency needs
single-case experiment
prosocial behaviors
cooperative play
47. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
keyword method
observational learning
discrimination
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
48. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
recency effect
intentionality
home-based reinforcement strategies
schemes
49. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
psychosocial crisis
assertive discipline
treatment
metacognitive skills
50. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
group contingencies
assimilation
identity achievement
episodic memory