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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Premack Principle
concrete operational stage
reflexes
2. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
bilingual education
associative play
mapping
major stage theorists
3. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
distributed practice
centration
note-taking
concrete operational stage
4. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
major stage theorists
psychosocial crisis
procedural memory
maintenance
5. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
long-term memory
reversibility
criterion-references interpretations
verbal learning
6. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
note-taking
wait time
treatment
growth needs
7. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
performance goals
cognitive behavior modification
initiative vs. guilt
primary reinforcer
8. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
distributed practice
equity pedagogy
primacy effect
individualized instruction
9. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
constructivist theories of learning
process-product studies
cues
presentation punishment
10. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura
rote learning
learning
regrouping
social learning theory
11. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
nformation-processing theory
class inclusion
unconditioned stimulus
correlational study
12. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
single-case experiment
untracking
mediated learning
pedagogy
13. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
process-product studies
stimuli
variable
continuous theories of development
14. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
primacy effect
social comparison
learning
inferred reality
15. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
dual code theory of memory
identity achievement
aptitude-treatment interaction
pegword method
16. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
nongraded programs
episodic memory
instrumental enrichment
QAIT model
17. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
cooperative scripting
readiness training
communicating positive expectations
proactive inhibition
18. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
distributed practice
compensatory education
rehearsal
conditioned stimulus
19. 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.
self-questioning strategies
primary reinforcer
class inclusion
punishment
20. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
flashbulb memory
fixed-interval schedule
retroactive inhibition
procedural memory
21. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
formative evaluation
development
compensatory education
laboratory experiment
22. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
consequences
elaboration
applied behavior analysis
knowledge construction
23. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
outlining
meaningful learning
industry vs. inferiority
inert knowledge
24. 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
experimental group
observational learning
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
learning
25. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
trust vs. mistrust
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
correlational study
sensorimotor stage
26. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
expectancy theory
theory
two-way bilingual education
metacognitive skills
27. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.
retroactive facilitation
verbal learning
outlining
conditioned stimulus
28. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
extinction
norm-referenced interpretations
discontinuous theories of development
knowledge construction
29. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
loci method
identity vs. role confusion
nongraded programs
proactive facilitation
30. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
interference
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
accommodation
retroactive inhibition
31. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
laboratory experiment
applied behavior analysis
moral dilemmas
loci method
32. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
laboratory experiment
development
formal operational stage
variable-interval schedule.
33. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
readiness training
top-down processing
object permanence
home-based reinforcement strategies
34. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
extinction burst
sex-role behavior
overlapping
concept
35. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
proactive facilitation
adaptation
schema theory
prejudice reduction
36. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)
schema theory
removal punishment
identity diffusion
learning probes
37. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
imagery
experiment
discovery learning
external validity
38. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
levels-of-processing theory
stimuli
experiment
independent practice
39. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)
randomized field experiment
analogies
autonomy vs. doubt
prosocial behaviors
40. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
analogies
centration
development
psychosocial theory
41. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
conservation
content evidence
shaping
rule-example-rule
42. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
enactment
rote learning
self-concept
performance goals
43. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
locus of control
cognitive behavior modification
educational psychology
intimacy vs. isolation
44. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
rote learning
QAIT model
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
identity vs. role confusion
45. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
meaningful learning
prosocial behaviors
Premack Principle
enactment
46. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
secondary reinforcer
norm-referenced interpretations
reinforcer
free-recall learning
47. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
calling order
stimuli
centration
positive correlation
48. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
classical conditioning
seriation
QAIT model
dual code theory of memory
49. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
early intervention program
attention
schemes
teacher efficacy
50. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
applied behavior analysis
bottom-up processing
mediated learning
two-way bilingual education
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