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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
critical thinking
transfer of learning
direct instruction
extinction
2. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
bottom-up processing
schemata
scaffolding
teacher efficacy
3. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
perception
verbal learning
PQ4R method
operant conditioning
4. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
english immersion
punishment
development
self-concept
5. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
identity achievement
achievement motivation
prejudice reduction
keyword method
6. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
parallel play
trust vs. mistrust
lesson clarity
neutral stimuli
7. Research + common sense
locus of control
effective teaching
wait time
discrimination
8. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
compensatory education
social learning theory
aptitude-treatment interaction
laboratory experiment
9. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
control group
modeling
paired-associate learning
centration
10. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need
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11. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
autonomy vs. doubt
discrimination
choral responses
knowledge construction
12. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
equity pedagogy
withitness
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
semantic memory
13. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
affective objectives
self-actualization
cooperative scripting
inferred reality
14. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
achievement motivation
initial-letter strategies
effective use of independent practice time
attention
15. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
choral responses
affective objectives
overlapping
presentation punishment
16. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
positive correlation
analogies
independent practice
presentation punishment
17. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
procedural memory
solitary play
initial-letter strategies
parts of a direct instruction lesson
18. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
private speech
discrimination
performance goals
presentation punishment
19. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
initiative vs. guilt
random assignment
rote learning
20. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
reinforcer
automaticity
variable-interval schedule.
retroactive facilitation
21. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
prejudice reduction
Skinner box
meaningful learning
content evidence
22. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
attribution theory
norm-referenced interpretations
vicarious learning
23. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
two-way bilingual education
self-regulated learners
metacognitive skills
overlapping
24. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
reflectivity
neutral stimuli
flashbulb memory
discovery learning
25. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
constructivism
analogies
random assignment
26. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
behavioral learning theories
procedural memory
parts of a direct instruction lesson
formal operational stage
27. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
stimuli
primary reinforcer
prosocial behaviors
free-recall learning
28. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
parallel play
external locus of control
discovery learning
sensorimotor stage
29. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
seriation
cognitive apprenticeship
continuous theories of development
punishment
30. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
extinction burst
sensory register
single-case experiment
motivation
31. 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)
classical conditioning
removal punishment
concrete operational stage
means-ends analysis
32. 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.
levels-of-processing theory
nformation-processing theory
scaffolding
rehearsal
33. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
attention
educational psychology
conventional level of morality
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
34. 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.
educational psychology
primary reinforcer
laboratory experiment
reflectivity
35. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
correlational study
punishment
randomized field experiment
bottom-up processing
36. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
meaningful learning
equilibration
metacognitive skills
note-taking
37. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
content evidence
extinction
learning goals
Premack Principle
38. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
seatwork
reinforcer
advance organizers
Blooms Taxonomy
39. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
episodic memory
assimilation
developmentally appropriate education
40. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.
random assignment
integrity vs. despiar
emergent literacy
proactive inhibition
41. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
law
identity achievement
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
descriptive research
42. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
between-class ability grouping
compensatory education
inferred reality
analogies
43. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
paired bilingual education
moratorium
early intervention program
observational learning
44. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
note-taking
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
equilibration
removal punishment
45. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
egocentric
cognitive apprenticeship
Premack Principle
mock participation
46. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
wait time
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
integrity vs. despiar
learning goals
47. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
summarizing
proactive facilitation
distributed practice
behavioral learning theories
48. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
consequences
recency effect
locus of control
variable-interval schedule.
49. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.
constructivist theories of learning
interference
stimuli
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
50. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
continuous theories of development
norm-referenced interpretations
meaningful learning
within-class ability grouping