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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.
analogies
sensory register
emergent literacy
law
2. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
group contingencies
educational psychology
readiness training
multiple intelligences
3. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
reversibility
experimental group
descriptive research
conservation
4. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
metacognition
summative evaluations
unconditioned stimulus
external validity
5. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
inert knowledge
self-esteem
preoperational stage
compensatory preschool programs
6. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
law
compensatory education
achievement motivation
cooperative scripting
7. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities
learning goals
Premack Principle
Skinner box
social comparison
8. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
stimuli
heteronomous morality
within-class ability grouping
law
9. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
Joplin Plan
parts of a direct instruction lesson
formal operational stage
schedule of reinforcement
10. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
internal validity
bottom-up processing
readiness training
inert knowledge
11. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
conservation
moral dilemmas
multiple intelligences
control group
12. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
principle
behavior-content matrix
intimacy vs. isolation
parts of a direct instruction lesson
13. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
control group
primary reinforcer
experimental group
random assignment
14. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
performance goals
primacy effect
working memory capacity
15. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
prejudice reduction
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
assimilation
between-class ability grouping
16. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
content evidence
negative correlation
group contingencies
imagery
17. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
bilingual education
identity achievement
heteronomous morality
nformation-processing theory
18. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information
inferred reality
fixed-interval schedule
constructivist theories of learning
schemata
19. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.
egocentric
behavior-content matrix
laboratory experiment
dual code theory of memory
20. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
bottom-up processing
social learning theory
paired bilingual education
initiative vs. guilt
21. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
positive correlation
constructivism
PQ4R method
reflexes
22. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
prejudice reduction
small muscle development
growth needs
verbal learning
23. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
preoperational stage
process-product studies
Skinner box
identity vs. role confusion
24. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
adaptation
integrity vs. despiar
random assignment
expectancy-valence model
25. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
large muscle development
nongraded programs
cognitive apprenticeship
inert knowledge
26. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
perception
retroactive facilitation
short-term/ working memory
pegword method
27. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
behavior-content matrix
verbal learning
nongraded programs
mnemonics
28. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
concrete operational stage
performance goals
lesson clarity
29. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
cognitive learning theories
object permanence
initiative vs. guilt
automaticity
30. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.
principle
internal validity
laboratory experiment
paired-associate learning
31. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential
self-actualization
inert knowledge
discontinuous theories of development
retroactive inhibition
32. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
discovery learning
accommodation
advance organizers
learning probes
33. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
worked examples
bottom-up processing
home-based reinforcement strategies
mock participation
34. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward
intimacy vs. isolation
mapping
paired bilingual education
expectancy theory
35. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
cognitive development
primacy effect
reflexes
semantic memory
36. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
english immersion
learning goals
distributed practice
37. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
experiment
discrimination
worked examples
automaticity
38. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
class inclusion
nformation-processing theory
interference
metacognition
39. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
deficiency needs
summative evaluations
autonomous morality
regrouping
40. 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
reflexes
compensatory preschool programs
attribution theory
untracking
41. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
cues
transfer of learning
Blooms Taxonomy
large muscle development
42. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
discovery learning
enactment
fixed-interval schedule
Blooms Taxonomy
43. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)
continuous theories of development
constructivist theories of learning
independent practice
generalization
44. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
direct instruction
schema theory
attention
pedagogy
45. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
rule-example-rule
egocentric
emergent literacy
seatwork
46. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
adaptation
independent practice
PQ4R method
47. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
postconventional level of morality
correlational study
keyword method
withitness
48. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
trust vs. mistrust
reflectivity
cues
self-regulated learners
49. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
independent practice
discontinuous theories of development
autonomous morality
analogies
50. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
prosocial behaviors
Blooms Taxonomy
seriation
inert knowledge