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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
behavior-content matrix
mock participation
criterion-references interpretations
norm-referenced interpretations
2. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
uncorrelated variables
inert knowledge
meaningful learning
self-actualization
3. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
performance goals
schemes
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
cognitive behavior modification
4. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
review prerequisites
overlapping
continuous theories of development
transitional bilingual education
5. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
summative evaluations
cooperative learning
behavior-content matrix
content evidence
6. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
postconventional level of morality
formative evaluation
compensatory education
distributed practice
7. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.
reversibility
identity diffusion
loci method
constructivism
8. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
critical thinking
private speech
secondary reinforcer
criterion-related evidence
9. 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.
aptitude-treatment interaction
behavior-content matrix
emergent literacy
applied behavior analysis
10. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
primary reinforcer
removal punishment
reversibility
identity vs. role confusion
11. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
bilingual education
review prerequisites
transitional bilingual education
serial learning
12. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
conditioned stimulus
preconventional level of morality
intelligence
mapping
13. A person's interpretation of stimuli
perception
autonomous morality
criterion-references interpretations
adaptation
14. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
autonomous morality
extinction burst
constructivism
pegword method
15. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
schema theory
self-esteem
self-regulated learners
initiative vs. guilt
16. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
summarizing
conditioned stimulus
adaptation
bottom-up processing
17. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
self-esteem
behavioral learning theories
assertive discipline
group contingencies
18. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
large muscle development
classical conditioning
conditioned stimulus
conservation
19. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
postconventional level of morality
proactive facilitation
intelligence
expectancy theory
20. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question
autonomy vs. doubt
identity vs. role confusion
choral responses
bottom-up processing
21. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
transfer of learning
psychosocial theory
elaboration
reinforcer
22. 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
self-actualization
reciprocal teaching
Joplin Plan
observational learning
23. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
intelligence quotient (IQ)
metacognition
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
withitness
24. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
procedural memory
content evidence
seatwork
recency effect
25. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
object permanence
concrete operational stage
rule-example-rule
autonomous morality
26. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
cooperative learning
variable
self-actualization
two-way bilingual education
27. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
moral dilemmas
large muscle development
overlapping
perception
28. 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.
parallel play
means-ends analysis
wait time
lesson clarity
29. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
self-actualization
random assignment
levels-of-processing theory
multiple intelligences
30. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)
parts of a direct instruction lesson
discovery learning
principle
concrete operational stage
31. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
effective teaching
content evidence
intelligence
continuous theories of development
32. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
industry vs. inferiority
imagery
Skinner box
within-class ability grouping
33. 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.
heteronomous morality
private speech
lesson clarity
shaping
34. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.
paired-associate learning
psychosocial crisis
transfer of learning
Premack Principle
35. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation
nformation-processing theory
discrimination
shaping
expectancy-valence model
36. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
law
inferred reality
massed practice
instrumental enrichment
37. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
outlining
development
parts of a direct instruction lesson
zone of proximal development
38. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
levels-of-processing theory
home-based reinforcement strategies
equity pedagogy
social comparison
39. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.
learned helplessness
external locus of control
instrumental enrichment
outlining
40. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
choral responses
teacher efficacy
identity vs. role confusion
self-actualization
41. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
achievement motivation
early intervention program
classical conditioning
shaping
42. A change in an individual that results from experience.
inert knowledge
sensorimotor stage
learning
self-regulation
43. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
observational learning
Joplin Plan
cooperative learning
worked examples
44. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
fixed-interval schedule
two-way bilingual education
teacher efficacy
small muscle development
45. Play that occurs alone.
metacognition
intentionality
solitary play
control group
46. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
learning probes
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
mapping
compensatory education
47. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
verbal learning
autonomous morality
intentionality
communicating positive expectations
48. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
assertive discipline
expectancy-valence model
untracking
autonomy vs. doubt
49. 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
law
primacy effect
small muscle development
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.
class inclusion
removal punishment
flashbulb memory
prejudice reduction