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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. 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.
mock participation
paired-associate learning
cognitive behavior modification
class inclusion
2. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.
multiple intelligences
conditioned stimulus
single-case experiment
expectancy-valence model
3. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.
reversibility
large muscle development
experiment
compensatory education
4. Continuation (of behavior)
note-taking
maintenance
random assignment
associative play
5. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
parts of a direct instruction lesson
performance goals
operant conditioning
preconventional level of morality
6. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.
initial-letter strategies
inert knowledge
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
cooperative play
7. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
summative evaluations
advance organizers
teacher efficacy
metacognitive skills
8. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
shaping
paired bilingual education
individualized instruction
cooperative play
9. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
effective teaching
enactment
lesson clarity
generativity vs self-absorption
10. 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
extinction burst
industry vs. inferiority
transfer of learning
effective use of independent practice time
11. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.
experiment
instrumental enrichment
transitional bilingual education
concrete operational stage
12. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
recency effect
semantic memory
advance organizers
associative play
13. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.
enactment
formal operational stage
regrouping
effective use of independent practice time
14. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
sign systems
prejudice reduction
knowledge construction
meaningful learning
15. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.
self-actualization
reflectivity
equity pedagogy
levels-of-processing theory
16. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
mock participation
autonomy vs. doubt
autonomous morality
learning probes
17. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
intimacy vs. isolation
conventional level of morality
extinction burst
fixed-interval schedule
18. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
antecedent stimuli
criterion-references interpretations
theory
psychosocial crisis
19. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
experiment
extinction
affective objectives
parts of a direct instruction lesson
20. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
conventional level of morality
primacy effect
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
dual code theory of memory
21. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
reciprocal teaching
note-taking
serial learning
compensatory preschool programs
22. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
multiple intelligences
compensatory education
elaboration
between-class ability grouping
23. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
individualized instruction
compensatory preschool programs
worked examples
learned helplessness
24. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
extinction
nformation-processing theory
preconventional level of morality
attribution theory
25. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.
choral responses
imagery
paired-associate learning
identity achievement
26. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
social learning theory
psychosocial theory
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
learning goals
27. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level
instrumental enrichment
paired bilingual education
preconventional level of morality
between-class ability grouping
28. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
identity diffusion
short-term/ working memory
external locus of control
moral dilemmas
29. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
criterion-related evidence
foreclosure
heteronomous morality
attention
30. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.
mapping
working memory capacity
uncorrelated variables
Skinner box
31. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.
recency effect
content integration
direct instruction
moratorium
32. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
attribution theory
flashbulb memory
external validity
correlational study
33. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
psychosocial theory
keyword method
inferred reality
within-class ability grouping
34. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
sensory register
serial learning
solitary play
QAIT model
35. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
variable
free-recall learning
between-class ability grouping
rule-example-rule
36. 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)
retroactive inhibition
autonomy vs. doubt
Skinner box
heteronomous morality
37. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.
direct instruction
intelligence quotient (IQ)
initiative vs. guilt
parts of a direct instruction lesson
38. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)
variable-interval schedule.
adaptation
process-product studies
teacher efficacy
39. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
psychosocial theory
reinforcer
group contingencies
trust vs. mistrust
40. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
retroactive facilitation
self-regulation
massed practice
intelligence
41. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).
distributed practice
bottom-up processing
reflexes
effective use of independent practice time
42. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)
worked examples
accommodation
sign systems
uncorrelated variables
43. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
episodic memory
negative correlation
integrity vs. despiar
major stage theorists
44. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
correlational study
performance goals
content evidence
autonomous morality
45. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.
self-regulation
correlational study
foreclosure
initiative vs. guilt
46. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
long-term memory
psychosocial crisis
top-down processing
means-ends analysis
47. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
review prerequisites
dual code theory of memory
paired-associate learning
knowledge construction
48. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura
pedagogy
social learning theory
home-based reinforcement strategies
external locus of control
49. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
stimuli
random assignment
levels-of-processing theory
vicarious learning
50. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
compensatory education
metacognitive skills
adaptation
cooperative play