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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
single-case experiment
inferred reality
home-based reinforcement strategies
achievement motivation
2. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
schemes
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
mnemonics
Skinner box
3. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
cognitive learning theories
semantic memory
transitivity
nformation-processing theory
4. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.
independent practice
associative play
modeling
emergent literacy
5. Play that occurs alone.
communicating positive expectations
vicarious learning
solitary play
concrete operational stage
6. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others
schema theory
levels-of-processing theory
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
self-regulation
7. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
experiment
preconventional level of morality
summative evaluations
aptitude-treatment interaction
8. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
consequences
foreclosure
reversibility
presentation punishment
9. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
two-way bilingual education
direct instruction
industry vs. inferiority
presentation punishment
10. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
mediated learning
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
punishment
unconditioned stimulus
11. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
foreclosure
secondary reinforcer
compensatory preschool programs
intelligence
12. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
foreclosure
working memory capacity
attention
preoperational stage
13. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
accommodation
mnemonics
social comparison
modeling
14. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
single-case experiment
conditioned stimulus
external locus of control
external validity
15. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
reciprocal teaching
metacognition
development
two-way bilingual education
16. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward
parallel play
expectancy theory
self-concept
integrity vs. despiar
17. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.
paired-associate learning
learned helplessness
wait time
consequences
18. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
affective objectives
dual code theory of memory
procedural memory
concept
19. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
variable-interval schedule.
large muscle development
trust vs. mistrust
enactment
20. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
motivation
presentation punishment
external validity
pedagogy
21. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
norm-referenced interpretations
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
prosocial behaviors
perception
22. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
choral responses
withitness
semantic memory
maintenance
23. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
external validity
prejudice reduction
cooperative learning
perception
24. 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.
equity pedagogy
vicarious learning
means-ends analysis
bottom-up processing
25. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
scaffolding
inferred reality
uncorrelated variables
self-actualization
26. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.
prosocial behaviors
removal punishment
mapping
reversibility
27. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
locus of control
cognitive development
enactment
schedule of reinforcement
28. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
generativity vs self-absorption
note-taking
recency effect
experiment
29. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura
teacher efficacy
interference
solitary play
social learning theory
30. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
readiness training
negative correlation
transitivity
metacognition
31. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
discontinuous theories of development
schemata
retroactive inhibition
performance goals
32. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
process-product studies
scaffolding
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
PQ4R method
33. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
postconventional level of morality
achievement motivation
enactment
untracking
34. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
affective objectives
Joplin Plan
neutral stimuli
initiative vs. guilt
35. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
elaboration
early intervention program
QAIT model
stimuli
36. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
lesson clarity
preconventional level of morality
summative evaluations
home-based reinforcement strategies
37. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
PQ4R method
sex-role behavior
overlapping
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
38. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.
reinforcer
intentionality
adaptation
integrity vs. despiar
39. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
self-esteem
summative evaluations
treatment
generativity vs self-absorption
40. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
learning goals
development
transitivity
parallel play
41. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
advance organizers
cooperative learning
self-regulation
descriptive research
42. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
stimuli
private speech
randomized field experiment
prejudice reduction
43. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)
cognitive behavior modification
schemata
retroactive inhibition
schemes
44. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
associative play
mental set
between-class ability grouping
identity achievement
45. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
cooperative scripting
trust vs. mistrust
norm-referenced interpretations
identity vs. role confusion
46. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
conditioned stimulus
outlining
principle
concept
47. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
affective objectives
pedagogy
correlational study
formal operational stage
48. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
choral responses
classical conditioning
maintenance
behavior-content matrix
49. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
procedural memory
extinction burst
regrouping
deficiency needs
50. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
reinforcer
transitional bilingual education
learning probes
expectancy theory