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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
Skinner box
conventional level of morality
primacy effect
retroactive facilitation
2. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
variable-interval schedule.
schemes
autonomy vs. doubt
object permanence
3. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
mental set
independent practice
moral dilemmas
sign systems
4. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
expectancy theory
learning
fixed-interval schedule
proactive inhibition
5. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
review prerequisites
self-concept
conditioned stimulus
rote learning
6. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
random assignment
verbal learning
self-concept
cognitive behavior modification
7. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).
class inclusion
calling order
schema theory
developmentally appropriate education
8. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
mapping
retroactive inhibition
self-concept
educational psychology
9. 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
metacognitive skills
accommodation
observational learning
removal punishment
10. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)
schemes
mapping
modeling
experimental group
11. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
levels-of-processing theory
maintenance
equity pedagogy
summarizing
12. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)
intelligence
concrete operational stage
metacognition
interference
13. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
vicarious learning
untracking
compensatory education
mediated learning
14. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
uncorrelated variables
psychosocial crisis
levels-of-processing theory
schemata
15. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow
action research
growth needs
loci method
reversibility
16. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.
untracking
summarizing
paired-associate learning
schema theory
17. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
external locus of control
lesson clarity
scaffolding
law
18. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
principle
developmentally appropriate education
PQ4R method
intimacy vs. isolation
19. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
object permanence
self-esteem
identity achievement
overlapping
20. 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
reciprocal teaching
conditioned stimulus
learning
distributed practice
21. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
class inclusion
intelligence
sensory register
solitary play
22. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
action research
cooperative scripting
external validity
removal punishment
23. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
consequences
metacognitive skills
compensatory preschool programs
24. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
randomized field experiment
parallel play
aptitude-treatment interaction
uncorrelated variables
25. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
action research
schemes
within-class ability grouping
prejudice reduction
26. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
theory
calling order
constructivism
levels-of-processing theory
27. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.
metacognition
presentation punishment
self-regulation
experiment
28. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
massed practice
punishment
proactive facilitation
keyword method
29. 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)
unconditioned stimulus
parallel play
autonomy vs. doubt
conservation
30. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
scaffolding
integrity vs. despiar
bottom-up processing
parallel play
31. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
treatment
mnemonics
self-concept
levels-of-processing theory
32. 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.
worked examples
presentation punishment
laboratory experiment
schema theory
33. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
stimuli
generalization
learning goals
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
34. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
shaping
private speech
flashbulb memory
solitary play
35. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.
autonomous morality
self-actualization
postconventional level of morality
proactive inhibition
36. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
object permanence
behavior-content matrix
metacognitive skills
keyword method
37. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
free-recall learning
prejudice reduction
attention
Joplin Plan
38. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
mock participation
knowledge construction
effective teaching
secondary reinforcer
39. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves
discovery learning
loci method
worked examples
nongraded programs
40. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.
within-class ability grouping
nongraded programs
bilingual education
communicating positive expectations
41. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
compensatory preschool programs
positive correlation
generativity vs self-absorption
teacher efficacy
42. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language
identity vs. role confusion
bilingual education
cooperative learning
accommodation
43. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.
primacy effect
descriptive research
cognitive behavior modification
content integration
44. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
treatment
autonomy vs. doubt
primary reinforcer
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
45. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
between-class ability grouping
free-recall learning
enactment
content evidence
46. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
industry vs. inferiority
enactment
educational psychology
concrete operational stage
47. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
top-down processing
wait time
extinction
learning
48. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
equilibration
choral responses
cognitive development
self-esteem
49. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
social learning theory
concrete operational stage
cooperative scripting
learning probes
50. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
nongraded programs
choral responses
self-esteem
pegword method