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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)
schedule of reinforcement
initiative vs. guilt
enactment
negative correlation
2. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
independent practice
schedule of reinforcement
teacher efficacy
conventional level of morality
3. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
locus of control
internal validity
expectancy theory
social learning theory
4. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
worked examples
conditioned stimulus
foreclosure
fixed-interval schedule
5. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)
classical conditioning
extinction
equity pedagogy
constructivist theories of learning
6. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
control group
communicating positive expectations
automaticity
metacognitive skills
7. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si
two-way bilingual education
interference
motivation
Blooms Taxonomy
8. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
english immersion
learning probes
centration
antecedent stimuli
9. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
overlapping
identity diffusion
reinforcer
Skinner box
10. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
concrete operational stage
antecedent stimuli
procedural memory
self-concept
11. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
reflectivity
extinction burst
locus of control
massed practice
12. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
paired bilingual education
autonomy vs. doubt
bilingual education
flashbulb memory
13. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)
modeling
cognitive behavior modification
independent practice
mediated learning
14. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
integrity vs. despiar
conservation
discrimination
process-product studies
15. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
assertive discipline
loci method
analogies
intimacy vs. isolation
16. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
internal validity
long-term memory
proactive inhibition
reflexes
17. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
prosocial behaviors
random assignment
expectancy-valence model
proactive facilitation
18. 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.
reinforcer
heteronomous morality
zone of proximal development
applied behavior analysis
19. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
treatment
Premack Principle
motivation
home-based reinforcement strategies
20. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
dual code theory of memory
content evidence
concrete operational stage
cooperative scripting
21. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
observational learning
metacognition
autonomous morality
centration
22. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
top-down processing
heteronomous morality
expectancy-valence model
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
23. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
positive correlation
identity achievement
assimilation
law
24. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
transitional bilingual education
bilingual education
top-down processing
solitary play
25. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
associative play
mock participation
social comparison
summarizing
26. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
sensory register
inferred reality
transitivity
instrumental enrichment
27. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
early intervention program
positive correlation
distributed practice
reflexes
28. 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
class inclusion
free-recall learning
observational learning
moral dilemmas
29. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
theory
pegword method
criterion-related evidence
equity pedagogy
30. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
experiment
Joplin Plan
maintenance
self-regulation
31. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
conditioned stimulus
external validity
cooperative play
development
32. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
pedagogy
nongraded programs
discontinuous theories of development
uncorrelated variables
33. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
knowledge construction
extinction
serial learning
rehearsal
34. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.
generalization
short-term/ working memory
mock participation
long-term memory
35. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
aptitude-treatment interaction
interference
early intervention program
compensatory education
36. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
imagery
effective use of independent practice time
knowledge construction
secondary reinforcer
37. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.
aptitude-treatment interaction
mediated learning
foreclosure
discrimination
38. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
transitional bilingual education
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
zone of proximal development
correlational study
39. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
trust vs. mistrust
treatment
readiness training
concept
40. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
preoperational stage
centration
working memory capacity
cognitive learning theories
41. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
long-term memory
seriation
lesson clarity
intentionality
42. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
secondary reinforcer
summative evaluations
initiative vs. guilt
expectancy theory
43. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
antecedent stimuli
small muscle development
retroactive inhibition
pedagogy
44. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
autonomy vs. doubt
derived scores
within-class ability grouping
vicarious learning
45. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
psychosocial theory
meaningful learning
episodic memory
concrete operational stage
46. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
descriptive research
treatment
moral dilemmas
review prerequisites
47. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
integrity vs. despiar
experiment
punishment
equity pedagogy
48. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor
summative evaluations
psychosocial crisis
zone of proximal development
effective use of independent practice time
49. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
neutral stimuli
keyword method
sensorimotor stage
cognitive development
50. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
transitivity
direct instruction
moral dilemmas
rule-example-rule