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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
criterion-related evidence
self-esteem
inert knowledge
mediated learning
2. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
proactive facilitation
moral dilemmas
working memory capacity
discovery learning
3. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
punishment
metacognitive skills
internal validity
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
4. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
critical thinking
shaping
cues
proactive inhibition
5. 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.
cognitive development
means-ends analysis
moratorium
egocentric
6. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
social learning theory
scaffolding
attention
seatwork
7. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
secondary reinforcer
self-actualization
nformation-processing theory
8. 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.
home-based reinforcement strategies
self-esteem
emergent literacy
norm-referenced interpretations
9. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
developmentally appropriate education
punishment
randomized field experiment
behavioral learning theories
10. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
instrumental enrichment
presentation punishment
formative evaluation
bilingual education
11. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
meaningful learning
shaping
formal operational stage
multiple intelligences
12. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
mock participation
individualized instruction
prosocial behaviors
multiple intelligences
13. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
egocentric
modeling
formal operational stage
14. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
serial learning
learning goals
randomized field experiment
equilibration
15. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
outlining
self-concept
presentation punishment
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
16. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura
positive correlation
social learning theory
psychosocial theory
antecedent stimuli
17. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
massed practice
long-term memory
equity pedagogy
egocentric
18. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
locus of control
rehearsal
bottom-up processing
bilingual education
19. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
intelligence quotient (IQ)
communicating positive expectations
schedule of reinforcement
20. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
verbal learning
law
removal punishment
preconventional level of morality
21. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
treatment
autonomy vs. doubt
preoperational stage
independent practice
22. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
sensorimotor stage
egocentric
Skinner box
parts of a direct instruction lesson
23. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
uncorrelated variables
generalization
teacher efficacy
scaffolding
24. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
conditioned stimulus
verbal learning
metacognition
derived scores
25. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
flashbulb memory
untracking
external locus of control
withitness
26. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
motivation
communicating positive expectations
retroactive facilitation
deficiency needs
27. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
calling order
shaping
perception
experimental group
28. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
schedule of reinforcement
retroactive inhibition
removal punishment
accommodation
29. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
instrumental enrichment
major stage theorists
primacy effect
reinforcer
30. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
metacognitive skills
sex-role behavior
self-regulation
motivation
31. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)
identity diffusion
seatwork
advance organizers
heteronomous morality
32. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
recency effect
compensatory education
sign systems
mnemonics
33. 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.
associative play
control group
mnemonics
distributed practice
34. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
summative evaluations
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
paired-associate learning
cooperative play
35. Play that occurs alone.
conventional level of morality
solitary play
growth needs
achievement motivation
36. The study of learning and teaching.
expectancy theory
educational psychology
individualized instruction
mnemonics
37. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
Joplin Plan
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
automaticity
interference
38. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.
operant conditioning
intentionality
schema theory
secondary reinforcer
39. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
sensorimotor stage
direct instruction
sex-role behavior
presentation punishment
40. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
self-esteem
zone of proximal development
rehearsal
adaptation
41. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
internal validity
criterion-related evidence
identity diffusion
object permanence
42. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
rote learning
schemata
centration
modeling
43. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
knowledge construction
extinction
postconventional level of morality
moratorium
44. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
between-class ability grouping
concrete operational stage
postconventional level of morality
compensatory education
45. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
bilingual education
loci method
negative correlation
massed practice
46. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
shaping
assimilation
generalization
47. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
negative correlation
psychosocial crisis
classical conditioning
external locus of control
48. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
free-recall learning
reflectivity
initial-letter strategies
interference
49. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
developmentally appropriate education
cognitive development
elaboration
parts of a direct instruction lesson
50. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
Blooms Taxonomy
rule-example-rule
emergent literacy
massed practice