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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
formative evaluation
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
self-actualization
experimental group
2. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
summarizing
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
presentation punishment
intimacy vs. isolation
3. 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)
unconditioned stimulus
maintenance
concrete operational stage
working memory capacity
4. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
learning
home-based reinforcement strategies
direct instruction
expectancy-valence model
5. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
antecedent stimuli
expectancy-valence model
large muscle development
positive correlation
6. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
analogies
reflectivity
intelligence
7. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
early intervention program
retroactive inhibition
pegword method
top-down processing
8. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
integrity vs. despiar
summative evaluations
proactive facilitation
antecedent stimuli
9. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
intelligence
locus of control
retroactive inhibition
within-class ability grouping
10. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
internal validity
descriptive research
variable
lesson clarity
11. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
achievement motivation
paired bilingual education
prejudice reduction
keyword method
12. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.
reinforcer
critical thinking
content evidence
growth needs
13. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
positive correlation
criterion-references interpretations
consequences
sex-role behavior
14. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
generalization
aptitude-treatment interaction
pedagogy
norm-referenced interpretations
15. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
uncorrelated variables
two-way bilingual education
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
moratorium
16. 5 to 9 pieces of information
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
primary reinforcer
independent practice
working memory capacity
17. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
serial learning
identity vs. role confusion
content integration
internal validity
18. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
learning goals
cues
conditioned stimulus
discovery learning
19. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
learned helplessness
shaping
assertive discipline
principle
20. 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.
associative play
integrity vs. despiar
english immersion
home-based reinforcement strategies
21. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
massed practice
variable
motivation
episodic memory
22. 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.
postconventional level of morality
concrete operational stage
heteronomous morality
self-questioning strategies
23. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
seriation
multiple intelligences
experimental group
theory
24. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.
observational learning
classical conditioning
secondary reinforcer
self-regulation
25. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
extinction
prosocial behaviors
free-recall learning
QAIT model
26. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
home-based reinforcement strategies
formative evaluation
untracking
transitional bilingual education
27. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
note-taking
external locus of control
rehearsal
social learning theory
28. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
elaboration
content evidence
pedagogy
randomized field experiment
29. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
mock participation
loci method
presentation punishment
positive correlation
30. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
note-taking
sex-role behavior
modeling
prejudice reduction
31. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
metacognition
developmentally appropriate education
self-esteem
direct instruction
32. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
inert knowledge
vicarious learning
identity achievement
conventional level of morality
33. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
psychosocial crisis
treatment
presentation punishment
regrouping
34. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
cooperative learning
mediated learning
discovery learning
35. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
laboratory experiment
massed practice
autonomous morality
social comparison
36. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
sensory register
mock participation
pedagogy
theory
37. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention
internal validity
rehearsal
massed practice
locus of control
38. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
descriptive research
Blooms Taxonomy
aptitude-treatment interaction
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
39. 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.
action research
class inclusion
educational psychology
reinforcer
40. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
early intervention program
development
worked examples
large muscle development
41. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
neutral stimuli
compensatory preschool programs
preconventional level of morality
two-way bilingual education
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
outlining
parts of a direct instruction lesson
experiment
43. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
interference
transitivity
correlational study
growth needs
44. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
communicating positive expectations
cognitive development
knowledge construction
social comparison
45. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
independent practice
seriation
small muscle development
object permanence
46. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
home-based reinforcement strategies
transitional bilingual education
paired-associate learning
single-case experiment
47. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
centration
integrity vs. despiar
preoperational stage
vicarious learning
48. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
modeling
bilingual education
Premack Principle
foreclosure
49. 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.
conservation
integrity vs. despiar
criterion-related evidence
large muscle development
50. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
procedural memory
parallel play
cooperative scripting
mediated learning
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