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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
preconventional level of morality
large muscle development
retroactive facilitation
growth needs
2. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
bilingual education
individualized instruction
recency effect
large muscle development
3. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
cooperative play
home-based reinforcement strategies
equilibration
massed practice
4. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
english immersion
discovery learning
attention
calling order
5. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
external validity
continuous theories of development
prosocial behaviors
critical thinking
6. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
recency effect
bottom-up processing
reversibility
instrumental enrichment
7. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
review prerequisites
prosocial behaviors
mental set
constructivism
8. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
mental set
deficiency needs
note-taking
vicarious learning
9. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
norm-referenced interpretations
small muscle development
PQ4R method
Blooms Taxonomy
10. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
extinction
private speech
readiness training
bilingual education
11. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si
small muscle development
operant conditioning
free-recall learning
Blooms Taxonomy
12. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
schemes
flashbulb memory
mapping
action research
13. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
educational psychology
deficiency needs
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
law
14. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
note-taking
intelligence quotient (IQ)
parallel play
learned helplessness
15. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
wait time
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
random assignment
generativity vs self-absorption
16. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura
social learning theory
formative evaluation
solitary play
self-esteem
17. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
choral responses
inert knowledge
self-actualization
serial learning
18. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
conventional level of morality
identity diffusion
negative correlation
top-down processing
19. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
cognitive behavior modification
Skinner box
class inclusion
wait time
20. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
private speech
intentionality
positive correlation
metacognition
21. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
rehearsal
process-product studies
assertive discipline
achievement motivation
22. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
performance goals
episodic memory
independent practice
cognitive development
23. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
rote learning
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
conditioned stimulus
consequences
24. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
internal validity
process-product studies
discontinuous theories of development
25. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)
locus of control
parallel play
autonomy vs. doubt
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
26. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
formative evaluation
Joplin Plan
discontinuous theories of development
moratorium
27. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention
summarizing
direct instruction
recency effect
rehearsal
28. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
procedural memory
egocentric
equilibration
emergent literacy
29. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
cues
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
neutral stimuli
prosocial behaviors
30. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
lesson clarity
metacognition
sensory register
variable
31. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
trust vs. mistrust
primary reinforcer
generativity vs self-absorption
autonomous morality
32. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
rule-example-rule
proactive inhibition
punishment
learning
33. Research + common sense
effective teaching
dual code theory of memory
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
criterion-related evidence
34. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
schemata
rote learning
assimilation
keyword method
35. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
object permanence
individualized instruction
effective teaching
conservation
36. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
autonomous morality
perception
process-product studies
paired bilingual education
37. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
english immersion
generativity vs self-absorption
learned helplessness
sign systems
38. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
external locus of control
long-term memory
flashbulb memory
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
39. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
major stage theorists
Premack Principle
inferred reality
prosocial behaviors
40. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
semantic memory
centration
adaptation
calling order
41. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
teacher efficacy
instrumental enrichment
within-class ability grouping
identity achievement
42. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)
schemata
pegword method
cooperative learning
concept
43. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
vicarious learning
transitivity
formative evaluation
nongraded programs
44. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels
scaffolding
formative evaluation
regrouping
accommodation
45. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
object permanence
preconventional level of morality
foreclosure
psychosocial crisis
46. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
achievement motivation
levels-of-processing theory
zone of proximal development
choral responses
47. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them
mapping
psychosocial theory
concrete operational stage
learning goals
48. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
primary reinforcer
consequences
internal validity
content evidence
49. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
effective teaching
conventional level of morality
uncorrelated variables
expectancy theory
50. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
retroactive facilitation
discovery learning
Skinner box
early intervention program