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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.
aptitude-treatment interaction
generalization
top-down processing
development
2. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors
sensorimotor stage
rehearsal
imagery
locus of control
3. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.
mediated learning
preconventional level of morality
moral dilemmas
readiness training
4. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
flashbulb memory
between-class ability grouping
moratorium
intelligence
5. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward
multiple intelligences
self-regulated learners
continuous theories of development
expectancy theory
6. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
untracking
reciprocal teaching
experimental group
treatment
7. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
formative evaluation
motivation
educational psychology
sex-role behavior
8. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)
lesson clarity
heteronomous morality
operant conditioning
verbal learning
9. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
intelligence
group contingencies
rehearsal
serial learning
10. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
rote learning
locus of control
external locus of control
identity diffusion
11. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
verbal learning
aptitude-treatment interaction
random assignment
secondary reinforcer
12. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
note-taking
reversibility
centration
pegword method
13. 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)
dual code theory of memory
initiative vs. guilt
choral responses
principle
14. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
communicating positive expectations
metacognition
schema theory
self-concept
15. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
accommodation
transitional bilingual education
aptitude-treatment interaction
reversibility
16. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
discrimination
foreclosure
class inclusion
sign systems
17. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
principle
cognitive development
cognitive learning theories
random assignment
18. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
bottom-up processing
compensatory education
mental set
cooperative scripting
19. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.
schedule of reinforcement
instrumental enrichment
descriptive research
reinforcer
20. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura
class inclusion
social learning theory
withitness
applied behavior analysis
21. 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.
autonomy vs. doubt
individualized instruction
accommodation
integrity vs. despiar
22. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels
variable-interval schedule.
secondary reinforcer
regrouping
vicarious learning
23. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read
learned helplessness
summarizing
untracking
primary reinforcer
24. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.
metacognitive skills
removal punishment
control group
effective use of independent practice time
25. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
concept
instrumental enrichment
experimental group
effective use of independent practice time
26. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.
loci method
affective objectives
class inclusion
cooperative play
27. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)
reciprocal teaching
laboratory experiment
moratorium
identity diffusion
28. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
classical conditioning
theory
preoperational stage
group contingencies
29. 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.
emergent literacy
transitional bilingual education
experiment
single-case experiment
30. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
performance goals
summarizing
self-regulated learners
internal validity
31. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
industry vs. inferiority
negative correlation
paired bilingual education
identity achievement
32. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
moratorium
transitional bilingual education
conservation
overlapping
33. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
conventional level of morality
calling order
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
mental set
34. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow
self-regulation
growth needs
content integration
free-recall learning
35. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
parallel play
cognitive development
home-based reinforcement strategies
two-way bilingual education
36. 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
antecedent stimuli
intelligence quotient (IQ)
37. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
secondary reinforcer
small muscle development
imagery
rote learning
38. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
Blooms Taxonomy
educational psychology
proactive inhibition
criterion-related evidence
39. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.
maintenance
object permanence
automaticity
preoperational stage
40. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
affective objectives
emergent literacy
major stage theorists
developmentally appropriate education
41. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
distributed practice
principle
sign systems
growth needs
42. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
retroactive inhibition
multiple intelligences
neutral stimuli
prejudice reduction
43. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
constructivism
continuous theories of development
behavioral learning theories
treatment
44. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
review prerequisites
mock participation
within-class ability grouping
schedule of reinforcement
45. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
dual code theory of memory
maintenance
Blooms Taxonomy
Skinner box
46. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
within-class ability grouping
extinction burst
initial-letter strategies
review prerequisites
47. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
knowledge construction
discontinuous theories of development
variable-interval schedule.
within-class ability grouping
48. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)
cognitive behavior modification
developmentally appropriate education
self-regulation
schemes
49. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
home-based reinforcement strategies
prosocial behaviors
perception
nformation-processing theory
50. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
class inclusion
proactive facilitation
home-based reinforcement strategies
formal operational stage