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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students
self-questioning strategies
group contingencies
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
positive correlation
2. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation
advance organizers
two-way bilingual education
intentionality
intelligence
3. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.
two-way bilingual education
experiment
sex-role behavior
presentation punishment
4. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.
private speech
compensatory education
laboratory experiment
extinction burst
5. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
cooperative scripting
criterion-related evidence
enactment
deficiency needs
6. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
formal operational stage
conditioned stimulus
automaticity
object permanence
7. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
compensatory preschool programs
principle
identity achievement
rehearsal
8. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators
recency effect
bottom-up processing
principles for providing extrinsic incentives
cooperative play
9. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
parallel play
uncorrelated variables
teacher efficacy
transitivity
10. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.
aptitude-treatment interaction
proactive facilitation
locus of control
external locus of control
11. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities
inert knowledge
experimental group
internal locus of control (self-efficacy)
assimilation
12. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).
attention
verbal learning
seatwork
developmentally appropriate education
13. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.
lesson clarity
formative evaluation
flashbulb memory
levels-of-processing theory
14. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.
mediated learning
criterion-references interpretations
fixed-ratio (FR) schedule
psychosocial crisis
15. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.
preconventional level of morality
psychosocial crisis
communicating positive expectations
variable-ratio (VR) schedule
16. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)
heteronomous morality
moratorium
cognitive apprenticeship
content evidence
17. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge
identity vs. role confusion
proactive inhibition
unconditioned stimulus
psychosocial crisis
18. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
control group
achievement motivation
summarizing
distributed practice
19. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)
schemes
emergent literacy
locus of control
growth needs
20. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
shaping
note-taking
short-term/ working memory
within-class ability grouping
21. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)
critical thinking
preoperational stage
intelligence quotient (IQ)
presentation punishment
22. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.
sex-role behavior
pegword method
prejudice reduction
interference
23. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.
sign systems
development
vicarious learning
preconventional level of morality
24. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
law
self-actualization
procedural memory
choral responses
25. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
development
conservation
self-regulation
mediated learning
26. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.
recency effect
self-regulated learners
note-taking
psychosocial crisis
27. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)
sign systems
zone of proximal development
learning goals
metacognitive skills
28. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
psychosocial theory
instrumental enrichment
reciprocal teaching
sex-role behavior
29. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review
social learning theory
prejudice reduction
review prerequisites
summarizing
30. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
calling order
loci method
formative evaluation
intimacy vs. isolation
31. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.
achievement motivation
Joplin Plan
criterion-related evidence
massed practice
32. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them
reversibility
identity achievement
self-regulated learners
home-based reinforcement strategies
33. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
recency effect
performance goals
cooperative scripting
loci method
34. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record
assertive discipline
recency effect
cognitive development
mock participation
35. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
initiative vs. guilt
aptitude-treatment interaction
rule-example-rule
transitional bilingual education
36. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.
learning probes
experiment
punishment
stimuli
37. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)
retroactive facilitation
short-term/ working memory
sensorimotor stage
identity achievement
38. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
mock participation
behavioral learning theories
PQ4R method
conventional level of morality
39. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.
Premack Principle
wait time
reversibility
heteronomous morality
40. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.
inferred reality
behavior-content matrix
sensorimotor stage
intimacy vs. isolation
41. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.
effective teaching
means-ends analysis
meaningful learning
home-based reinforcement strategies
42. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)
multiple intelligences
reflexes
unconditioned stimulus
Joplin Plan
43. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
bilingual education
educational psychology
generativity vs self-absorption
consequences
44. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure
direct instruction
two-way bilingual education
sign systems
external locus of control
45. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow
conditioned stimulus
effective use of independent practice time
small muscle development
growth needs
46. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.
pegword method
sensory register
consequences
seatwork
47. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.
extinction
intelligence
integrity vs. despiar
cognitive learning theories
48. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals
punishment
identity achievement
summarizing
learning goals
49. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.
randomized field experiment
outlining
conservation
top-down processing
50. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
flashbulb memory
neutral stimuli
locus of control
conservation
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