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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
paired bilingual education
presentation punishment
procedural memory
removal punishment
2. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
shaping
self-esteem
content evidence
rote learning
3. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
primary reinforcer
egocentric
laboratory experiment
transitivity
4. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
compensatory education
descriptive research
maintenance
metacognition
5. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
discrimination
rule-example-rule
free-recall learning
initial-letter strategies
6. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
reciprocal teaching
variable
law
untracking
7. 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.
laboratory experiment
preconventional level of morality
correlational study
attention
8. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.
sensorimotor stage
behavioral learning theories
metacognitive skills
automaticity
9. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
integrity vs. despiar
self-actualization
accommodation
review prerequisites
10. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
primary reinforcer
within-class ability grouping
intelligence quotient (IQ)
11. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
deficiency needs
affective objectives
retroactive inhibition
centration
12. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
long-term memory
lesson clarity
self-regulation
bilingual education
13. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
prosocial behaviors
calling order
preoperational stage
long-term memory
14. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
unconditioned stimulus
aptitude-treatment interaction
prejudice reduction
performance goals
15. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
aptitude-treatment interaction
control group
proactive facilitation
knowledge construction
16. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
recency effect
primacy effect
pedagogy
observational learning
17. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
behavioral learning theories
experimental group
rule-example-rule
individualized instruction
18. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
private speech
intelligence quotient (IQ)
attention
19. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
affective objectives
bottom-up processing
emergent literacy
inert knowledge
20. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
retroactive inhibition
cooperative learning
discrimination
advance organizers
21. 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)
withitness
keyword method
reflectivity
concrete operational stage
22. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
operant conditioning
attention
presentation punishment
motivation
23. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
reversibility
cognitive learning theories
aptitude-treatment interaction
concrete operational stage
24. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
between-class ability grouping
independent practice
retroactive inhibition
expectancy-valence model
25. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
enactment
automaticity
class inclusion
proactive facilitation
26. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
nongraded programs
formal operational stage
recency effect
between-class ability grouping
27. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
process-product studies
paired bilingual education
extinction burst
criterion-related evidence
28. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
affective objectives
self-questioning strategies
zone of proximal development
dual code theory of memory
29. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
paired bilingual education
operant conditioning
cognitive apprenticeship
variable
30. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
sex-role behavior
regrouping
shaping
formal operational stage
31. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
metacognitive skills
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
expectancy theory
distributed practice
32. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
short-term/ working memory
uncorrelated variables
vicarious learning
pegword method
33. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
criterion-related evidence
home-based reinforcement strategies
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
shaping
34. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
worked examples
metacognition
35. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
cognitive learning theories
punishment
derived scores
elaboration
36. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
constructivist theories of learning
distributed practice
deficiency needs
within-class ability grouping
37. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
Premack Principle
negative correlation
early intervention program
initial-letter strategies
38. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
major stage theorists
top-down processing
note-taking
shaping
39. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
free-recall learning
action research
schemes
external locus of control
40. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
episodic memory
between-class ability grouping
metacognition
overlapping
41. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
nongraded programs
choral responses
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
random assignment
42. 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
reciprocal teaching
extinction burst
loci method
cognitive apprenticeship
43. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
cognitive development
descriptive research
paired bilingual education
retroactive facilitation
44. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
note-taking
equity pedagogy
assertive discipline
45. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
fixed-interval schedule
discrimination
parallel play
attribution theory
46. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
maintenance
heteronomous morality
compensatory preschool programs
47. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
reversibility
overlapping
loci method
assertive discipline
48. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
generativity vs self-absorption
experiment
perception
lesson clarity
49. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
top-down processing
Blooms Taxonomy
compensatory preschool programs
intimacy vs. isolation
50. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
internal validity
learning goals
multiple intelligences
experimental group
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