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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
procedural memory
nongraded programs
discovery learning
pedagogy
2. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
self-esteem
punishment
advance organizers
performance goals
3. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
within-class ability grouping
retroactive inhibition
affective objectives
seatwork
4. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
single-case experiment
classical conditioning
perception
retroactive inhibition
5. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
operant conditioning
intimacy vs. isolation
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
conventional level of morality
6. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
perception
social comparison
criterion-related evidence
regrouping
7. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).
bilingual education
developmentally appropriate education
presentation punishment
shaping
8. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
descriptive research
identity vs. role confusion
Joplin Plan
seriation
9. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
calling order
preoperational stage
paired bilingual education
proactive facilitation
10. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.
equity pedagogy
associative play
PQ4R method
law
11. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
conventional level of morality
intentionality
recency effect
intelligence
12. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
paired-associate learning
wait time
equilibration
sex-role behavior
13. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
foreclosure
communicating positive expectations
content evidence
long-term memory
14. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
QAIT model
operant conditioning
outlining
foreclosure
15. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
intelligence
solitary play
prosocial behaviors
paired-associate learning
16. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
working memory capacity
content integration
cooperative learning
home-based reinforcement strategies
17. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
bilingual education
modeling
object permanence
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
18. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
self-questioning strategies
moratorium
communicating positive expectations
recency effect
19. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
QAIT model
retroactive facilitation
zone of proximal development
calling order
20. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
between-class ability grouping
expectancy-valence model
compensatory preschool programs
distributed practice
21. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
reflectivity
PQ4R method
private speech
achievement motivation
22. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
growth needs
criterion-references interpretations
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
preoperational stage
23. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
development
conservation
egocentric
object permanence
24. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.
intentionality
rehearsal
dual code theory of memory
centration
25. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
continuous theories of development
experimental group
secondary reinforcer
review prerequisites
26. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
automaticity
outlining
independent practice
early intervention program
27. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.
levels-of-processing theory
wait time
early intervention program
schemes
28. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
small muscle development
Blooms Taxonomy
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
content integration
29. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
formal operational stage
multiple intelligences
automaticity
sensory register
30. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
constructivism
working memory capacity
reflectivity
intelligence quotient (IQ)
31. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
paired bilingual education
imagery
semantic memory
rote learning
32. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others
criterion-references interpretations
self-regulation
psychosocial crisis
communicating positive expectations
33. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
theory
vicarious learning
working memory capacity
bottom-up processing
34. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
associative play
two-way bilingual education
nongraded programs
individualized instruction
35. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
summarizing
self-questioning strategies
process-product studies
emergent literacy
36. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
self-concept
regrouping
intentionality
meaningful learning
37. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
self-regulation
teacher efficacy
lesson clarity
object permanence
38. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
semantic memory
english immersion
learning goals
treatment
39. Play that occurs alone.
cooperative scripting
reversibility
solitary play
massed practice
40. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.
control group
vicarious learning
transitional bilingual education
reversibility
41. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
nformation-processing theory
constructivist theories of learning
process-product studies
modeling
42. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
zone of proximal development
recency effect
parts of a direct instruction lesson
mental set
43. 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.
constructivism
scaffolding
generativity vs self-absorption
behavior-content matrix
44. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.
discrimination
sensory register
cooperative play
communicating positive expectations
45. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
zone of proximal development
distributed practice
retroactive facilitation
top-down processing
46. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.
means-ends analysis
equilibration
assimilation
cognitive development
47. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
distributed practice
external locus of control
criterion-references interpretations
attention
48. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
derived scores
object permanence
discontinuous theories of development
two-way bilingual education
49. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
vicarious learning
review prerequisites
deficiency needs
teacher efficacy
50. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
private speech
inert knowledge
locus of control
schemes