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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.
sign systems
teacher efficacy
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
shaping
2. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
private speech
vicarious learning
independent practice
preoperational stage
3. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
self-esteem
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
solitary play
principle
4. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
sign systems
schedule of reinforcement
rote learning
parallel play
5. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)
developmentally appropriate education
transitivity
neutral stimuli
trust vs. mistrust
6. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
overlapping
review prerequisites
enactment
self-esteem
7. Perception of and response to different stimuli
self-concept
discrimination
preoperational stage
sensorimotor stage
8. Research + common sense
discrimination
effective teaching
trust vs. mistrust
inert knowledge
9. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.
centration
analogies
conventional level of morality
teacher efficacy
10. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.
performance goals
self-regulated learners
analogies
home-based reinforcement strategies
11. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
class inclusion
loci method
elaboration
discovery learning
12. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
heteronomous morality
schema theory
continuous theories of development
neutral stimuli
13. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
formative evaluation
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
adaptation
wait time
14. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
meaningful learning
control group
theory
autonomous morality
15. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.
reflectivity
transitivity
experimental group
massed practice
16. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts
cognitive apprenticeship
loci method
solitary play
reflectivity
17. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
formative evaluation
attribution theory
rule-example-rule
schema theory
18. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others
self-regulation
Skinner box
intentionality
mock participation
19. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
independent practice
self-regulation
overlapping
reflexes
20. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory
accommodation
mnemonics
integrity vs. despiar
retroactive facilitation
21. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
learned helplessness
levels-of-processing theory
Joplin Plan
large muscle development
22. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
secondary reinforcer
mapping
integrity vs. despiar
centration
23. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
principle
home-based reinforcement strategies
self-regulation
intelligence quotient (IQ)
24. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
mnemonics
positive correlation
assertive discipline
independent practice
25. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.
formative evaluation
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
positive correlation
automaticity
26. The study of learning and teaching.
conventional level of morality
prosocial behaviors
nongraded programs
educational psychology
27. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.
educational psychology
deficiency needs
constructivism
within-class ability grouping
28. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
external locus of control
associative play
development
knowledge construction
29. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
transitional bilingual education
sensory register
QAIT model
cooperative scripting
30. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.
experiment
advance organizers
group contingencies
learning goals
31. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
mental set
semantic memory
equity pedagogy
control group
32. Continuation (of behavior)
maintenance
self-regulated learners
cooperative scripting
learning probes
33. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities
calling order
seatwork
achievement motivation
variable
34. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
affective objectives
primacy effect
cognitive learning theories
parts of a direct instruction lesson
35. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.
conventional level of morality
parts of a direct instruction lesson
advance organizers
proactive facilitation
36. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.
laboratory experiment
elaboration
development
punishment
37. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.
consequences
transitivity
paired-associate learning
paired bilingual education
38. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
transitional bilingual education
self-actualization
sex-role behavior
flashbulb memory
39. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)
experimental group
cues
identity achievement
teacher efficacy
40. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
classical conditioning
learned helplessness
summarizing
QAIT model
41. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
conditioned stimulus
behavior-content matrix
wait time
sign systems
42. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
intelligence
punishment
enactment
pedagogy
43. Play that occurs alone.
perception
Premack Principle
solitary play
learning goals
44. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)
foreclosure
consequences
major stage theorists
strategies to enhance intrinsic motivation
45. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.
prejudice reduction
neutral stimuli
meaningful learning
antecedent stimuli
46. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
imagery
primary reinforcer
preoperational stage
social learning theory
47. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
cooperative scripting
generativity vs self-absorption
within-class ability grouping
conditioned stimulus
48. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
pegword method
metacognitive skills
inferred reality
enactment
49. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.
bottom-up processing
summarizing
loci method
mnemonics
50. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
class inclusion
rule-example-rule
analogies
bilingual education