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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
knowledge construction
integrity vs. despiar
self-concept
reflexes
2. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.
generalization
nongraded programs
law
summarizing
3. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
reinforcer
rehearsal
Blooms Taxonomy
constructivism
4. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
loci method
experimental group
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
growth needs
5. 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.
integrity vs. despiar
postconventional level of morality
means-ends analysis
behavior-content matrix
6. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
reflectivity
conventional level of morality
schema theory
negative correlation
7. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
home-based reinforcement strategies
formal operational stage
norm-referenced interpretations
serial learning
8. Play that occurs alone.
correlational study
neutral stimuli
solitary play
locus of control
9. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.
conservation
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
theory
unconditioned stimulus
10. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
reflexes
modeling
mental set
continuous theories of development
11. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
self-regulated learners
achievement motivation
two-way bilingual education
identity vs. role confusion
12. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
english immersion
theory
parallel play
13. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
imagery
discontinuous theories of development
constructivism
single-case experiment
14. Perception of and response to different stimuli
discontinuous theories of development
initial-letter strategies
discrimination
sign systems
15. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
conservation
discovery learning
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
behavioral learning theories
16. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.
self-regulation
nformation-processing theory
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
loci method
17. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
operant conditioning
criterion-references interpretations
generalization
seriation
18. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.
means-ends analysis
teacher efficacy
top-down processing
deficiency needs
19. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
schema theory
psychosocial theory
reversibility
criterion-related evidence
20. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
sensory register
distributed practice
mock participation
note-taking
21. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
randomized field experiment
cognitive development
cognitive learning theories
preconventional level of morality
22. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
initiative vs. guilt
industry vs. inferiority
development
rote learning
23. 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)
unconditioned stimulus
constructivist theories of learning
massed practice
equity pedagogy
24. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
regrouping
initial-letter strategies
inferred reality
free-recall learning
25. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
proactive facilitation
direct instruction
home-based reinforcement strategies
principle
26. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
autonomous morality
self-regulation
removal punishment
self-questioning strategies
27. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
advance organizers
parts of a direct instruction lesson
compensatory preschool programs
effective teaching
28. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
elaboration
self-concept
extinction
reversibility
29. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
motivation
identity diffusion
top-down processing
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
30. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
conventional level of morality
maintenance
independent practice
seatwork
31. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
intelligence
multiple intelligences
bottom-up processing
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
32. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
readiness training
nongraded programs
negative correlation
preoperational stage
33. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
group contingencies
compensatory education
calling order
constructivism
34. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
derived scores
fixed-interval schedule
secondary reinforcer
home-based reinforcement strategies
35. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
principle
antecedent stimuli
affective objectives
metacognition
36. 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.
compensatory preschool programs
nformation-processing theory
major stage theorists
schema theory
37. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
integrity vs. despiar
intelligence
laboratory experiment
bottom-up processing
38. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
object permanence
postconventional level of morality
cooperative scripting
assimilation
39. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.
conditioned stimulus
dual code theory of memory
elaboration
effective use of independent practice time
40. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
choral responses
learning
correlational study
extinction burst
41. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
reinforcer
pegword method
cognitive behavior modification
constructivist theories of learning
42. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
fixed-interval schedule
zone of proximal development
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
egocentric
43. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
postconventional level of morality
moral dilemmas
learning goals
emergent literacy
44. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
intimacy vs. isolation
compensatory preschool programs
conditioned stimulus
imagery
45. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
pegword method
content integration
mediated learning
46. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
mock participation
uncorrelated variables
perception
keyword method
47. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
PQ4R method
social comparison
within-class ability grouping
48. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
external locus of control
constructivist theories of learning
retroactive facilitation
Blooms Taxonomy
49. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.
randomized field experiment
prejudice reduction
formative evaluation
descriptive research
50. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
formative evaluation
expectancy-valence model
meaningful learning
maintenance
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