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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.
meaningful learning
sign systems
shaping
class inclusion
2. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
mediated learning
affective objectives
vicarious learning
3. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
concept
direct instruction
control group
intimacy vs. isolation
4. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.
knowledge construction
social comparison
continuous theories of development
Blooms Taxonomy
5. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
content evidence
free-recall learning
moratorium
discontinuous theories of development
6. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards
inferred reality
vicarious learning
automaticity
untracking
7. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English
paired bilingual education
variable-interval schedule.
schema theory
parallel play
8. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.
self-questioning strategies
preconventional level of morality
knowledge construction
pegword method
9. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.
cognitive apprenticeship
treatment
shaping
lesson clarity
10. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
adaptation
cooperative scripting
trust vs. mistrust
self-concept
11. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
applied behavior analysis
expectancy-valence model
reflectivity
attribution theory
12. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
learning probes
discrimination
secondary reinforcer
identity diffusion
13. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.
unconditioned stimulus
behavior-content matrix
laboratory experiment
autonomous morality
14. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
schemes
parallel play
distributed practice
bilingual education
15. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
bottom-up processing
egocentric
assertive discipline
english immersion
16. Play that occurs alone.
postconventional level of morality
centration
solitary play
regrouping
17. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
paired bilingual education
inert knowledge
recency effect
removal punishment
18. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)
primary reinforcer
large muscle development
cognitive behavior modification
learned helplessness
19. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.
vicarious learning
emergent literacy
process-product studies
accommodation
20. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
criterion-references interpretations
content integration
integrity vs. despiar
observational learning
21. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
flashbulb memory
law
neutral stimuli
intelligence quotient (IQ)
22. Perception of and response to different stimuli
discrimination
top-down processing
cooperative learning
autonomous morality
23. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.
episodic memory
cognitive learning theories
worked examples
scaffolding
24. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.
associative play
emergent literacy
retroactive inhibition
equilibration
25. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.
individualized instruction
action research
moratorium
randomized field experiment
26. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
solitary play
PQ4R method
self-regulation
schemata
27. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.
vicarious learning
expectancy theory
integrity vs. despiar
content evidence
28. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention
integrity vs. despiar
mediated learning
rehearsal
observational learning
29. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)
Skinner box
moratorium
small muscle development
formative evaluation
30. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
performance goals
external validity
moral dilemmas
generalization
31. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
regrouping
discovery learning
associative play
inferred reality
32. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.
intentionality
autonomy vs. doubt
moratorium
choral responses
33. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
principle
expectancy-valence model
observational learning
shaping
34. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
retroactive inhibition
learned helplessness
conservation
within-class ability grouping
35. 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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36. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.
criterion-related evidence
analogies
cognitive development
inferred reality
37. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.
behavior-content matrix
identity achievement
parts of a direct instruction lesson
lesson clarity
38. Mental visualization of images to improve memory
english immersion
imagery
external validity
applied behavior analysis
39. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
schemes
psychosocial crisis
direct instruction
serial learning
40. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
autonomy vs. doubt
associative play
note-taking
choral responses
41. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
autonomous morality
readiness training
QAIT model
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
42. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)
critical thinking
assimilation
presentation punishment
means-ends analysis
43. 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.
integrity vs. despiar
imagery
behavioral learning theories
paired bilingual education
44. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.
self-concept
parallel play
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
cognitive learning theories
45. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.
preoperational stage
social comparison
discontinuous theories of development
early intervention program
46. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
external locus of control
principle
long-term memory
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
47. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.
self-regulation
random assignment
laboratory experiment
dual code theory of memory
48. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
loci method
reflectivity
extinction
initial-letter strategies
49. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
dual code theory of memory
schedule of reinforcement
preoperational stage
observational learning
50. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
parallel play
seatwork
content evidence
proactive facilitation