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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
recency effect
single-case experiment
discontinuous theories of development
bottom-up processing
2. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
direct instruction
review prerequisites
accommodation
major stage theorists
3. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
social learning theory
motivation
maintenance
extinction
4. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
rote learning
self-regulation
cognitive development
trust vs. mistrust
5. 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
associative play
aptitude-treatment interaction
reciprocal teaching
effective teaching
6. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation
discrimination
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
expectancy-valence model
two-way bilingual education
7. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
means-ends analysis
working memory capacity
behavior-content matrix
within-class ability grouping
8. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
discovery learning
moratorium
operant conditioning
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
9. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
achievement motivation
experimental group
procedural memory
derived scores
10. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
seriation
growth needs
accommodation
large muscle development
11. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
parts of a direct instruction lesson
social learning theory
internal validity
summative evaluations
12. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
variable-interval schedule.
development
criterion-references interpretations
seatwork
13. 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.
paired-associate learning
stimuli
autonomy vs. doubt
scaffolding
14. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
attention
compensatory preschool programs
keyword method
cooperative scripting
15. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.
psychosocial theory
self-questioning strategies
levels-of-processing theory
locus of control
16. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
discrimination
adaptation
serial learning
self-esteem
17. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
variable
cooperative scripting
moral dilemmas
constructivism
18. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
seatwork
applied behavior analysis
learning
postconventional level of morality
19. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
Blooms Taxonomy
early intervention program
mock participation
intelligence
20. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
mock participation
retroactive inhibition
rehearsal
assimilation
21. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
transfer of learning
primary reinforcer
major stage theorists
semantic memory
22. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
Joplin Plan
nformation-processing theory
note-taking
meaningful learning
23. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)
initiative vs. guilt
withitness
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
content evidence
24. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
extinction burst
preoperational stage
self-esteem
external validity
25. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
process-product studies
short-term/ working memory
review prerequisites
content integration
26. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
self-regulation
short-term/ working memory
reflexes
experiment
27. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
inferred reality
individualized instruction
inert knowledge
applied behavior analysis
28. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
cognitive development
neutral stimuli
dual code theory of memory
random assignment
29. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.
autonomous morality
pedagogy
primacy effect
reciprocal teaching
30. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
reciprocal teaching
identity achievement
note-taking
31. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.
action research
flashbulb memory
regrouping
centration
32. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.
loci method
analogies
choral responses
consequences
33. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
two-way bilingual education
external validity
schedule of reinforcement
adaptation
34. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
transitional bilingual education
parallel play
solitary play
schemata
35. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
treatment
distributed practice
parallel play
lesson clarity
36. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
control group
verbal learning
educational psychology
conventional level of morality
37. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
transitional bilingual education
reciprocal teaching
cues
discontinuous theories of development
38. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need
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39. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura
transitivity
calling order
growth needs
social learning theory
40. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
reinforcer
uncorrelated variables
content integration
mnemonics
41. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.
sex-role behavior
large muscle development
readiness training
self-regulated learners
42. Continuation (of behavior)
transfer of learning
sign systems
developmentally appropriate education
maintenance
43. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
transitivity
note-taking
self-regulated learners
retroactive facilitation
44. 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)
constructivist theories of learning
concept
cognitive development
expectancy-valence model
45. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
continuous theories of development
social comparison
retroactive inhibition
accommodation
46. 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
prejudice reduction
maintenance
action research
47. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.
reciprocal teaching
primary reinforcer
neutral stimuli
developmentally appropriate education
48. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
random assignment
classical conditioning
laboratory experiment
constructivism
49. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
summarizing
observational learning
self-regulated learners
correlational study
50. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times
internal validity
withitness
procedural memory
means-ends analysis
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