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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
initiative vs. guilt
cooperative play
postconventional level of morality
recency effect
2. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
elaboration
preoperational stage
postconventional level of morality
scaffolding
3. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
equilibration
moratorium
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
paired bilingual education
4. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
self-esteem
positive correlation
presentation punishment
multiple intelligences
5. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
self-concept
episodic memory
internal validity
private speech
6. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
small muscle development
overlapping
development
criterion-references interpretations
7. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
cooperative play
self-regulation
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
heteronomous morality
8. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
initiative vs. guilt
seriation
principle
lesson clarity
9. Research + common sense
effective teaching
meaningful learning
top-down processing
psychosocial theory
10. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
emergent literacy
seatwork
psychosocial crisis
derived scores
11. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
self-actualization
motivation
parallel play
primacy effect
12. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
autonomous morality
integrity vs. despiar
english immersion
sensory register
13. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
enactment
transfer of learning
home-based reinforcement strategies
review prerequisites
14. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
overlapping
rote learning
classical conditioning
mapping
15. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
identity diffusion
equity pedagogy
massed practice
object permanence
16. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
randomized field experiment
untracking
industry vs. inferiority
variable-interval schedule.
17. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
withitness
knowledge construction
sensory register
learning probes
18. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
scaffolding
episodic memory
proactive facilitation
schedule of reinforcement
19. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
between-class ability grouping
major stage theorists
presentation punishment
20. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
correlational study
social comparison
autonomy vs. doubt
sex-role behavior
21. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.
positive correlation
critical thinking
sex-role behavior
paired-associate learning
22. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
schema theory
Joplin Plan
choral responses
advance organizers
23. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
fixed-interval schedule
individualized instruction
psychosocial crisis
compensatory preschool programs
24. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
generativity vs self-absorption
behavior-content matrix
uncorrelated variables
self-regulation
25. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
locus of control
mnemonics
imagery
Joplin Plan
26. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
preconventional level of morality
concept
behavior-content matrix
achievement motivation
27. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
effective teaching
review prerequisites
self-regulation
meaningful learning
28. 5 to 9 pieces of information
outlining
variable-interval schedule.
working memory capacity
private speech
29. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
communicating positive expectations
schemes
intelligence
parallel play
30. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
antecedent stimuli
process-product studies
self-concept
formative evaluation
31. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
accommodation
content evidence
descriptive research
positive correlation
32. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
reinforcer
criterion-related evidence
removal punishment
effective use of independent practice time
33. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
within-class ability grouping
untracking
nformation-processing theory
34. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
lesson clarity
psychosocial theory
note-taking
experimental group
35. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
learning probes
variable-interval schedule.
discovery learning
nformation-processing theory
36. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
reversibility
punishment
critical thinking
internal validity
37. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
equity pedagogy
treatment
reinforcer
vicarious learning
38. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
shaping
serial learning
retroactive facilitation
extinction
39. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
imagery
removal punishment
mental set
conditioned stimulus
40. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
reflectivity
unconditioned stimulus
external locus of control
generativity vs self-absorption
41. A change in an individual that results from experience.
classical conditioning
autonomy vs. doubt
advance organizers
learning
42. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
rehearsal
effective use of independent practice time
self-esteem
loci method
43. 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
observational learning
self-regulated learners
psychosocial crisis
moral dilemmas
44. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
positive correlation
initial-letter strategies
summative evaluations
distributed practice
45. Perception of and response to different stimuli
antecedent stimuli
fixed-interval schedule
discrimination
parts of a direct instruction lesson
46. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.
deficiency needs
english immersion
autonomy vs. doubt
retroactive facilitation
47. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
recency effect
small muscle development
derived scores
preconventional level of morality
48. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
semantic memory
trust vs. mistrust
self-esteem
seatwork
49. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
parallel play
metacognitive skills
internal validity
deficiency needs
50. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
mapping
elaboration
pegword method
nongraded programs