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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.
external validity
self-regulation
preoperational stage
distributed practice
2. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
home-based reinforcement strategies
preconventional level of morality
summative evaluations
sensory register
3. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
foreclosure
self-esteem
loci method
sign systems
4. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
trust vs. mistrust
sign systems
cooperative scripting
reflectivity
5. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
treatment
summarizing
cooperative scripting
parallel play
6. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.
generalization
associative play
reversibility
short-term/ working memory
7. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.
Skinner box
concrete operational stage
randomized field experiment
expectancy-valence model
8. Play that occurs alone.
solitary play
associative play
extinction burst
stimuli
9. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention
consequences
rehearsal
assertive discipline
developmentally appropriate education
10. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
calling order
preoperational stage
mnemonics
formal operational stage
11. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
prejudice reduction
negative correlation
prosocial behaviors
12. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)
classical conditioning
moratorium
applied behavior analysis
social learning theory
13. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
neutral stimuli
between-class ability grouping
self-esteem
choral responses
14. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
cooperative play
self-actualization
cognitive behavior modification
discontinuous theories of development
15. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
Blooms Taxonomy
assimilation
communicating positive expectations
verbal learning
16. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
Joplin Plan
aptitude-treatment interaction
schedule of reinforcement
centration
17. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
Joplin Plan
enactment
primary reinforcer
social learning theory
18. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
initial-letter strategies
note-taking
principle
retroactive facilitation
19. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.
object permanence
random assignment
experiment
levels-of-processing theory
20. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
inert knowledge
cooperative scripting
applied behavior analysis
egocentric
21. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.
variable-interval schedule.
constructivism
cooperative play
primacy effect
22. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.
dual code theory of memory
Blooms Taxonomy
schedule of reinforcement
cognitive apprenticeship
23. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes
cognitive learning theories
continuous theories of development
concept
associative play
24. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
control group
cognitive behavior modification
PQ4R method
prejudice reduction
25. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
effective teaching
constructivism
knowledge construction
proactive facilitation
26. A change in an individual that results from experience.
locus of control
social comparison
pegword method
learning
27. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
process-product studies
conservation
developmentally appropriate education
psychosocial theory
28. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
retroactive inhibition
nongraded programs
self-esteem
negative correlation
29. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co
equilibration
criterion-references interpretations
effective teaching
observational learning
30. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
conditioned stimulus
nongraded programs
summative evaluations
identity diffusion
31. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
reinforcer
expectancy theory
sensory register
treatment
32. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.
transfer of learning
metacognitive skills
conservation
paired-associate learning
33. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
principle
extinction burst
presentation punishment
constructivism
34. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
accommodation
serial learning
within-class ability grouping
nformation-processing theory
35. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
initial-letter strategies
foreclosure
control group
moral dilemmas
36. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
nformation-processing theory
concept
initial-letter strategies
assimilation
37. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
stimuli
summative evaluations
bottom-up processing
experimental group
38. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
readiness training
norm-referenced interpretations
wait time
prosocial behaviors
39. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
Blooms Taxonomy
performance goals
foreclosure
theory
40. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor
development
flashbulb memory
summative evaluations
effective use of independent practice time
41. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
home-based reinforcement strategies
english immersion
stimuli
rule-example-rule
42. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.
self-actualization
content evidence
laboratory experiment
compensatory education
43. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
Joplin Plan
treatment
extinction burst
readiness training
44. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.
serial learning
fixed-interval schedule
critical thinking
calling order
45. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).
schema theory
moratorium
bilingual education
developmentally appropriate education
46. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
consequences
sensorimotor stage
extinction burst
transfer of learning
47. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
between-class ability grouping
adaptation
object permanence
autonomous morality
48. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
stimuli
treatment
reinforcer
theory
49. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
social comparison
untracking
effective teaching
descriptive research
50. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
variable
laboratory experiment
private speech
stimuli