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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
deficiency needs
emergent literacy
development
principle
2. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
cooperative play
mapping
intelligence
assimilation
3. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
choral responses
home-based reinforcement strategies
Blooms Taxonomy
internal validity
4. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction
Joplin Plan
critical thinking
heteronomous morality
self-regulated learners
5. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
variable
prosocial behaviors
within-class ability grouping
inert knowledge
6. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
self-regulation
classical conditioning
independent practice
psychosocial theory
7. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule
locus of control
social comparison
cooperative play
rule-example-rule
8. 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)
derived scores
intelligence quotient (IQ)
autonomous morality
initiative vs. guilt
9. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations
loci method
developmentally appropriate education
meaningful learning
cognitive development
10. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.
transitivity
imagery
assertive discipline
cooperative scripting
11. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')
uncorrelated variables
metacognition
foreclosure
readiness training
12. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things
flashbulb memory
procedural memory
parts of a direct instruction lesson
norm-referenced interpretations
13. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.
identity vs. role confusion
analogies
behavioral learning theories
single-case experiment
14. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.
advance organizers
solitary play
cooperative scripting
overlapping
15. 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.
analogies
prosocial behaviors
mediated learning
foreclosure
16. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
withitness
note-taking
aptitude-treatment interaction
experiment
17. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.
self-questioning strategies
deficiency needs
bottom-up processing
scaffolding
18. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.
moratorium
negative correlation
assertive discipline
short-term/ working memory
19. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
two-way bilingual education
centration
self-regulation
formal operational stage
20. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.
early intervention program
nongraded programs
recency effect
maintenance
21. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English
major stage theorists
classical conditioning
unconditioned stimulus
transitional bilingual education
22. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation
expectancy theory
prejudice reduction
mediated learning
process-product studies
23. 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
effective use of independent practice time
summarizing
generalization
variable
24. 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
experiment
conventional level of morality
learning
25. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.
moral dilemmas
learning probes
correlational study
interference
26. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge
semantic memory
worked examples
schema theory
cues
27. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.
negative correlation
social comparison
shaping
egocentric
28. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)
constructivist theories of learning
rule-example-rule
sensorimotor stage
mental set
29. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.
performance goals
variable
cognitive apprenticeship
direct instruction
30. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
sex-role behavior
theory
multiple intelligences
note-taking
31. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
intelligence
intelligence quotient (IQ)
concept
choral responses
32. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
sign systems
psychosocial theory
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
knowledge construction
33. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.
discontinuous theories of development
self-regulated learners
formal operational stage
intelligence
34. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.
bilingual education
identity achievement
learned helplessness
observational learning
35. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg
within-class ability grouping
behavioral learning theories
process-product studies
major stage theorists
36. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.
summative evaluations
self-regulation
cooperative play
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
37. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
initiative vs. guilt
retroactive inhibition
untracking
Joplin Plan
38. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.
extinction burst
discrimination
behavioral learning theories
negative correlation
39. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.
concrete operational stage
maintenance
calling order
knowledge construction
40. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.
nongraded programs
unconditioned stimulus
free-recall learning
major stage theorists
41. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.
conventional level of morality
transitivity
PQ4R method
experimental group
42. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.
home-based reinforcement strategies
compensatory preschool programs
experiment
affective objectives
43. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others
paired bilingual education
equity pedagogy
attention
mediated learning
44. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.
emergent literacy
generalization
treatment
observational learning
45. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
criterion-references interpretations
mental set
content evidence
external validity
46. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.
self-esteem
solitary play
parallel play
external locus of control
47. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples
transitivity
concept
reflexes
loci method
48. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.
perception
bottom-up processing
instrumental enrichment
continuous theories of development
49. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.
extinction
Blooms Taxonomy
prejudice reduction
sign systems
50. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
secondary reinforcer
reversibility
concrete operational stage
dual code theory of memory