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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
attention
analogies
procedural memory
assimilation
2. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
knowledge construction
mnemonics
Blooms Taxonomy
procedural memory
3. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
retroactive facilitation
cognitive development
parts of a direct instruction lesson
note-taking
4. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
theory
QAIT model
reflexes
industry vs. inferiority
5. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
attention
social learning theory
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
educational psychology
6. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
lesson clarity
treatment
reinforcer
wait time
7. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
correlational study
perception
vicarious learning
private speech
8. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
reciprocal teaching
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
readiness training
law
9. 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.
means-ends analysis
outlining
laboratory experiment
seriation
10. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
preoperational stage
neutral stimuli
centration
fixed-interval schedule
11. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
schemata
random assignment
Blooms Taxonomy
review prerequisites
12. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
process-product studies
deficiency needs
random assignment
imagery
13. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
achievement motivation
perception
compensatory education
autonomy vs. doubt
14. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
cooperative scripting
achievement motivation
learning probes
moratorium
15. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
punishment
internal validity
direct instruction
discovery learning
16. 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.
action research
rote learning
heteronomous morality
readiness training
17. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
shaping
learned helplessness
mock participation
formal operational stage
18. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
developmentally appropriate education
external validity
initial-letter strategies
autonomous morality
19. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
operant conditioning
enactment
retroactive inhibition
expectancy theory
20. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
self-concept
sensorimotor stage
long-term memory
intelligence quotient (IQ)
21. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
note-taking
summarizing
modeling
early intervention program
22. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
preoperational stage
primary reinforcer
identity diffusion
cooperative learning
23. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory
multiple intelligences
semantic memory
wait time
mnemonics
24. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
psychosocial theory
semantic memory
principle
cooperative play
25. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
concept
pegword method
constructivism
uncorrelated variables
26. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
QAIT model
transitivity
behavior-content matrix
metacognition
27. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
extinction burst
experimental group
scaffolding
development
28. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
conservation
identity achievement
perception
cooperative learning
29. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
serial learning
reinforcer
private speech
primary reinforcer
30. Learning of a list of items in any order.
free-recall learning
applied behavior analysis
schedule of reinforcement
inferred reality
31. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
cooperative scripting
massed practice
learning probes
motivation
32. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
means-ends analysis
primary reinforcer
process-product studies
schedule of reinforcement
33. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
self-regulation
primacy effect
neutral stimuli
worked examples
34. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
removal punishment
keyword method
massed practice
summarizing
35. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
identity achievement
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
flashbulb memory
treatment
36. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
generalization
loci method
identity diffusion
foreclosure
37. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
removal punishment
small muscle development
egocentric
prosocial behaviors
38. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
self-regulation
centration
discovery learning
independent practice
39. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
positive correlation
intelligence
cooperative play
intimacy vs. isolation
40. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
transfer of learning
norm-referenced interpretations
transitional bilingual education
interference
41. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
serial learning
autonomous morality
effective teaching
paired bilingual education
42. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
note-taking
motivation
negative correlation
nformation-processing theory
43. Research + common sense
effective teaching
seriation
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
self-esteem
44. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
preconventional level of morality
QAIT model
aptitude-treatment interaction
45. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
vicarious learning
development
positive correlation
treatment
46. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
proactive inhibition
recency effect
maintenance
foreclosure
47. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
conventional level of morality
recency effect
sensorimotor stage
enactment
48. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
self-regulation
mock participation
removal punishment
equity pedagogy
49. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
enactment
sensory register
outlining
equilibration
50. 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.
theory
outlining
random assignment
class inclusion