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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
group contingencies
discrimination
compensatory preschool programs
lesson clarity
2. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
unconditioned stimulus
affective objectives
Skinner box
effective use of independent practice time
3. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
metacognition
vicarious learning
summative evaluations
readiness training
4. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
flashbulb memory
initial-letter strategies
overlapping
external validity
5. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation
sign systems
expectancy-valence model
imagery
operant conditioning
6. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
discrimination
uncorrelated variables
cognitive development
achievement motivation
7. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.
motivation
instrumental enrichment
primary reinforcer
preoperational stage
8. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
home-based reinforcement strategies
cognitive development
mediated learning
concrete operational stage
9. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
choral responses
discrimination
secondary reinforcer
neutral stimuli
10. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards
untracking
automaticity
development
moratorium
11. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
removal punishment
maintenance
self-esteem
autonomous morality
12. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
treatment
affective objectives
educational psychology
Joplin Plan
13. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
parts of a direct instruction lesson
observational learning
early intervention program
rote learning
14. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
episodic memory
Skinner box
enactment
seatwork
15. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
proactive inhibition
self-questioning strategies
affective objectives
negative correlation
16. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
schemes
autonomous morality
self-regulated learners
elaboration
17. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.
self-questioning strategies
self-regulation
means-ends analysis
compensatory preschool programs
18. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory
discontinuous theories of development
mnemonics
summative evaluations
analogies
19. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
individualized instruction
presentation punishment
advance organizers
recency effect
20. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
scaffolding
experimental group
consequences
regrouping
21. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
elaboration
intelligence quotient (IQ)
secondary reinforcer
22. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
massed practice
self-regulation
individualized instruction
deficiency needs
23. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
trust vs. mistrust
process-product studies
experimental group
elaboration
24. Learning of a list of items in any order.
cues
free-recall learning
proactive inhibition
preconventional level of morality
25. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
untracking
cues
retroactive inhibition
sex-role behavior
26. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
intelligence quotient (IQ)
behavior-content matrix
untracking
sex-role behavior
27. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
trust vs. mistrust
attribution theory
learning goals
28. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
preoperational stage
theory
rote learning
punishment
29. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
constructivism
positive correlation
teacher efficacy
worked examples
30. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
rule-example-rule
enactment
bottom-up processing
external locus of control
31. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
learning goals
cooperative play
private speech
antecedent stimuli
32. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
transitivity
cooperative play
choral responses
heteronomous morality
33. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
primary reinforcer
cooperative play
interference
cognitive development
34. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
pedagogy
egocentric
foreclosure
direct instruction
35. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
seriation
cognitive development
constructivist theories of learning
cooperative learning
36. 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.
observational learning
serial learning
mediated learning
correlational study
37. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
within-class ability grouping
secondary reinforcer
constructivist theories of learning
seatwork
38. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
achievement motivation
conventional level of morality
preoperational stage
experiment
39. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
learned helplessness
major stage theorists
schemata
analogies
40. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
early intervention program
massed practice
group contingencies
top-down processing
41. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
locus of control
lesson clarity
process-product studies
content integration
42. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
advance organizers
cooperative learning
dual code theory of memory
mnemonics
43. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson
keyword method
self-regulated learners
mental set
variable-interval schedule.
44. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
enactment
early intervention program
experiment
constructivist theories of learning
45. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
extinction
rote learning
semantic memory
Blooms Taxonomy
46. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
removal punishment
initial-letter strategies
parts of a direct instruction lesson
discrimination
47. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
early intervention program
transfer of learning
identity achievement
postconventional level of morality
48. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.
laboratory experiment
constructivist theories of learning
fixed-interval schedule
distributed practice
49. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
adaptation
worked examples
sensorimotor stage
inferred reality
50. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
reflexes
intimacy vs. isolation
norm-referenced interpretations
summative evaluations