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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
achievement motivation
sex-role behavior
cues
conventional level of morality
2. 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)
content integration
random assignment
concrete operational stage
assimilation
3. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
autonomy vs. doubt
calling order
direct instruction
analogies
4. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
extinction burst
private speech
nformation-processing theory
operant conditioning
5. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)
experimental group
solitary play
industry vs. inferiority
self-regulation
6. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.
early intervention program
single-case experiment
foreclosure
discrimination
7. A change in an individual that results from experience.
untracking
calling order
criterion-related evidence
learning
8. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
bilingual education
generativity vs self-absorption
automaticity
cooperative play
9. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).
long-term memory
parts of a direct instruction lesson
summative evaluations
developmentally appropriate education
10. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group
generalization
self-concept
maintenance
derived scores
11. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
massed practice
reflectivity
self-concept
top-down processing
12. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
theory
self-concept
analogies
external validity
13. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
law
applied behavior analysis
learning probes
motivation
14. 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.
small muscle development
retroactive facilitation
large muscle development
associative play
15. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
untracking
overlapping
Blooms Taxonomy
treatment
16. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
critical thinking
large muscle development
developmentally appropriate education
pegword method
17. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.
theory
schema theory
attribution theory
deficiency needs
18. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
major stage theorists
behavioral learning theories
automaticity
retroactive inhibition
19. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
laboratory experiment
positive correlation
multiple intelligences
applied behavior analysis
20. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.
schedule of reinforcement
criterion-related evidence
reflectivity
fixed-interval schedule
21. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
recency effect
uncorrelated variables
negative correlation
egocentric
22. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
educational psychology
learning
principle
mediated learning
23. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
parallel play
stimuli
semantic memory
growth needs
24. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
procedural memory
randomized field experiment
inferred reality
discrimination
25. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
summarizing
intelligence quotient (IQ)
meaningful learning
external validity
26. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
object permanence
behavior-content matrix
treatment
27. 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
fixed-interval schedule
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
effective use of independent practice time
group contingencies
28. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.
teacher efficacy
elaboration
instrumental enrichment
preoperational stage
29. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
social learning theory
episodic memory
mapping
industry vs. inferiority
30. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
QAIT model
continuous theories of development
punishment
adaptation
31. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
bottom-up processing
constructivist theories of learning
external locus of control
paired bilingual education
32. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
knowledge construction
seatwork
descriptive research
generalization
33. 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.
paired-associate learning
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
Premack Principle
heteronomous morality
34. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
major stage theorists
pedagogy
random assignment
cognitive apprenticeship
35. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
variable-interval schedule.
external validity
nongraded programs
sensory register
36. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
calling order
development
attention
mediated learning
37. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
interference
principle
criterion-related evidence
bilingual education
38. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
knowledge construction
social comparison
massed practice
retroactive inhibition
39. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
mediated learning
critical thinking
attention
external locus of control
40. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
enactment
transitivity
early intervention program
cooperative scripting
41. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
principle
note-taking
unconditioned stimulus
process-product studies
42. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
withitness
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
large muscle development
sex-role behavior
43. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
two-way bilingual education
treatment
learned helplessness
knowledge construction
44. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
identity achievement
rule-example-rule
internal validity
episodic memory
45. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
presentation punishment
massed practice
schemata
psychosocial theory
46. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)
performance goals
early intervention program
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
applied behavior analysis
47. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
formal operational stage
wait time
zone of proximal development
advance organizers
48. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
calling order
imagery
proactive inhibition
positive correlation
49. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
serial learning
major stage theorists
advance organizers
self-concept
50. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
rote learning
note-taking
two-way bilingual education
retroactive inhibition