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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
autonomous morality
concrete operational stage
performance goals
maintenance
2. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
intelligence
cues
interference
performance goals
3. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
reciprocal teaching
enactment
QAIT model
associative play
4. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
overlapping
knowledge construction
accommodation
foreclosure
5. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
content integration
pegword method
regrouping
pedagogy
6. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
pegword method
inferred reality
Premack Principle
pedagogy
7. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
Blooms Taxonomy
reflexes
choral responses
moratorium
8. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
concept
correlational study
distributed practice
9. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
action research
transitivity
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
external locus of control
10. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
self-regulation
dual code theory of memory
learning goals
sex-role behavior
11. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
direct instruction
metacognition
negative correlation
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
12. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.
operant conditioning
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
cognitive apprenticeship
discovery learning
13. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
intimacy vs. isolation
experimental group
trust vs. mistrust
14. Learning of a list of items in any order.
free-recall learning
schemata
discontinuous theories of development
overlapping
15. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
independent practice
group contingencies
schedule of reinforcement
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
16. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
paired-associate learning
behavioral learning theories
centration
discontinuous theories of development
17. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
lesson clarity
control group
semantic memory
treatment
18. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
antecedent stimuli
withitness
pedagogy
PQ4R method
19. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
law
Joplin Plan
sensorimotor stage
direct instruction
20. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
primacy effect
schemes
distributed practice
enactment
21. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
reversibility
industry vs. inferiority
theory
extinction burst
22. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
bottom-up processing
self-regulation
cognitive learning theories
presentation punishment
23. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
overlapping
nongraded programs
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
intelligence
24. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory
self-regulation
mock participation
law
mnemonics
25. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
primacy effect
communicating positive expectations
norm-referenced interpretations
antecedent stimuli
26. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
self-actualization
behavioral learning theories
sensory register
secondary reinforcer
27. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
seatwork
criterion-related evidence
reinforcer
sign systems
28. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
inert knowledge
stimuli
equity pedagogy
removal punishment
29. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
teacher efficacy
metacognitive skills
self-questioning strategies
large muscle development
30. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
learning
shaping
Premack Principle
learning goals
31. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
positive correlation
paired bilingual education
working memory capacity
preconventional level of morality
32. Research + common sense
long-term memory
short-term/ working memory
psychosocial theory
effective teaching
33. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
psychosocial theory
Premack Principle
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
home-based reinforcement strategies
34. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
initiative vs. guilt
behavior-content matrix
cooperative play
seriation
35. A change in an individual that results from experience.
assertive discipline
learning
intelligence
cognitive behavior modification
36. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
choral responses
theory
conservation
industry vs. inferiority
37. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
self-questioning strategies
paired-associate learning
cooperative play
intelligence
38. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
primary reinforcer
treatment
bilingual education
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
39. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
development
parallel play
egocentric
extinction burst
40. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
summarizing
semantic memory
reciprocal teaching
performance goals
41. 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
theory
paired bilingual education
retroactive inhibition
42. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
moratorium
english immersion
nformation-processing theory
43. Environmental conditions that activate the senses
sensorimotor stage
principle
paired bilingual education
stimuli
44. Events that precede behaviors
primary reinforcer
antecedent stimuli
pedagogy
applied behavior analysis
45. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
pedagogy
proactive facilitation
untracking
heteronomous morality
46. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
control group
object permanence
adaptation
consequences
47. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
principle
prosocial behaviors
punishment
teacher efficacy
48. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
stimuli
communicating positive expectations
effective teaching
adaptation
49. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
internal validity
major stage theorists
action research
readiness training
50. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
initiative vs. guilt
review prerequisites
mental set
episodic memory