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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
proactive inhibition
neutral stimuli
behavior-content matrix
regrouping
2. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
transfer of learning
mapping
cooperative learning
choral responses
3. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
teacher efficacy
centration
intelligence
sensorimotor stage
4. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension
motivation
uncorrelated variables
reciprocal teaching
working memory capacity
5. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
variable-interval schedule.
variable
expectancy theory
cognitive behavior modification
6. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
conservation
foreclosure
enactment
calling order
7. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
internal validity
intimacy vs. isolation
criterion-related evidence
loci method
8. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.
conventional level of morality
expectancy-valence model
uncorrelated variables
punishment
9. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
nformation-processing theory
intentionality
associative play
knowledge construction
10. Learning of a list of items in any order.
home-based reinforcement strategies
free-recall learning
social comparison
identity achievement
11. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
rote learning
intelligence quotient (IQ)
cues
self-actualization
12. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.
centration
motivation
fixed-interval schedule
self-regulated learners
13. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
formative evaluation
attention
inferred reality
means-ends analysis
14. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
attention
cooperative learning
home-based reinforcement strategies
calling order
15. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
moratorium
pedagogy
removal punishment
achievement motivation
16. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
integrity vs. despiar
formative evaluation
schema theory
wait time
17. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.
primacy effect
behavioral learning theories
cognitive learning theories
communicating positive expectations
18. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.
cooperative scripting
choral responses
control group
integrity vs. despiar
19. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
reversibility
private speech
inferred reality
summative evaluations
20. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
between-class ability grouping
egocentric
experimental group
rehearsal
21. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
criterion-related evidence
dual code theory of memory
self-actualization
self-regulation
22. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
serial learning
achievement motivation
learning
conditioned stimulus
23. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
attribution theory
outlining
seriation
automaticity
24. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes
cognitive learning theories
schemes
critical thinking
preconventional level of morality
25. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
assertive discipline
levels-of-processing theory
identity vs. role confusion
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
26. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)
negative correlation
parallel play
applied behavior analysis
constructivism
27. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
learning goals
discovery learning
primacy effect
psychosocial theory
28. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
performance goals
locus of control
learning probes
foreclosure
29. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.
moratorium
bilingual education
self-concept
self-questioning strategies
30. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
compensatory preschool programs
loci method
observational learning
heteronomous morality
31. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
semantic memory
effective teaching
moratorium
critical thinking
32. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
episodic memory
laboratory experiment
deficiency needs
large muscle development
33. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
private speech
long-term memory
reversibility
34. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
discontinuous theories of development
identity diffusion
uncorrelated variables
autonomous morality
35. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
formal operational stage
single-case experiment
external validity
expectancy theory
36. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
foreclosure
parts of a direct instruction lesson
classical conditioning
initiative vs. guilt
37. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
social learning theory
autonomy vs. doubt
primary reinforcer
performance goals
38. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
integrity vs. despiar
procedural memory
postconventional level of morality
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
39. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.
outlining
accommodation
derived scores
prejudice reduction
40. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
knowledge construction
episodic memory
Skinner box
descriptive research
41. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
learned helplessness
assimilation
sensory register
learning
42. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.
levels-of-processing theory
growth needs
discrimination
enactment
43. 5 to 9 pieces of information
heteronomous morality
descriptive research
learned helplessness
working memory capacity
44. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
single-case experiment
learning probes
automaticity
equity pedagogy
45. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
affective objectives
direct instruction
proactive facilitation
criterion-references interpretations
46. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
aptitude-treatment interaction
integrity vs. despiar
continuous theories of development
advance organizers
47. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
top-down processing
group contingencies
descriptive research
social comparison
48. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
learned helplessness
long-term memory
extinction
emergent literacy
49. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
content evidence
attribution theory
advance organizers
review prerequisites
50. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
stimuli
secondary reinforcer
constructivism
keyword method