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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
continuous theories of development
advance organizers
expectancy-valence model
industry vs. inferiority
2. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
bilingual education
small muscle development
postconventional level of morality
derived scores
3. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
performance goals
mediated learning
keyword method
theory
4. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
discontinuous theories of development
content integration
law
norm-referenced interpretations
5. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
performance goals
discovery learning
reinforcer
applied behavior analysis
6. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
conservation
choral responses
adaptation
verbal learning
7. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
generalization
early intervention program
withitness
top-down processing
8. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
prosocial behaviors
classical conditioning
variable
top-down processing
9. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
metacognition
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
learning probes
within-class ability grouping
10. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
adaptation
stimuli
QAIT model
theory
11. A person's interpretation of stimuli
mnemonics
perception
deficiency needs
prosocial behaviors
12. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
stimuli
free-recall learning
compensatory education
QAIT model
13. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
stimuli
theory
conservation
summarizing
14. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
vicarious learning
cognitive development
process-product studies
postconventional level of morality
15. 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
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
Blooms Taxonomy
multiple intelligences
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
16. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention
continuous theories of development
integrity vs. despiar
treatment
rehearsal
17. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
free-recall learning
moral dilemmas
presentation punishment
content integration
18. 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.
prejudice reduction
class inclusion
sex-role behavior
autonomous morality
19. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
identity diffusion
group contingencies
assimilation
content evidence
20. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
outlining
learning
flashbulb memory
sensory register
21. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
QAIT model
aptitude-treatment interaction
means-ends analysis
affective objectives
22. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
antecedent stimuli
moral dilemmas
equilibration
Skinner box
23. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.
early intervention program
scaffolding
learning goals
laboratory experiment
24. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension
centration
mental set
between-class ability grouping
reciprocal teaching
25. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
seriation
discrimination
english immersion
single-case experiment
26. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
conditioned stimulus
worked examples
self-esteem
proactive facilitation
27. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
outlining
fixed-interval schedule
transfer of learning
deficiency needs
28. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
bilingual education
psychosocial theory
early intervention program
teacher efficacy
29. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
direct instruction
fixed-interval schedule
meaningful learning
semantic memory
30. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
heteronomous morality
imagery
sex-role behavior
emergent literacy
31. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
advance organizers
antecedent stimuli
psychosocial theory
moral dilemmas
32. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
meaningful learning
schemata
affective objectives
critical thinking
33. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
choral responses
recency effect
intelligence quotient (IQ)
mock participation
34. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
content integration
perception
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
content evidence
35. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
short-term/ working memory
randomized field experiment
expectancy theory
concrete operational stage
36. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
accommodation
generalization
mapping
transitional bilingual education
37. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
PQ4R method
integrity vs. despiar
analogies
process-product studies
38. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
proactive inhibition
massed practice
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
sensory register
39. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
removal punishment
overlapping
multiple intelligences
summative evaluations
40. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
small muscle development
inferred reality
shaping
single-case experiment
41. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
dual code theory of memory
loci method
QAIT model
compensatory preschool programs
42. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
class inclusion
compensatory education
modeling
intelligence quotient (IQ)
43. 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
interference
Premack Principle
aptitude-treatment interaction
44. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
single-case experiment
reinforcer
assimilation
45. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
continuous theories of development
laboratory experiment
pedagogy
formal operational stage
46. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
schemata
equilibration
extinction burst
treatment
47. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question
identity vs. role confusion
prosocial behaviors
metacognitive skills
emergent literacy
48. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
adaptation
worked examples
variable-interval schedule.
nongraded programs
49. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
aptitude-treatment interaction
review prerequisites
performance goals
mapping
50. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
calling order
worked examples
process-product studies
adaptation