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Educational Psychology Vocab
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1. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)
cognitive learning theories
constructivism
analogies
free-recall learning
2. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.
experiment
external validity
group contingencies
reversibility
3. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.
choral responses
uncorrelated variables
behavioral learning theories
external validity
4. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.
transitional bilingual education
untracking
conservation
equilibration
5. A change in an individual that results from experience.
maintenance
learning
retroactive facilitation
self-actualization
6. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.
PQ4R method
parallel play
Premack Principle
self-regulation
7. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
aptitude-treatment interaction
reflectivity
maintenance
summative evaluations
8. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)
variable
psychosocial theory
analogies
mental set
9. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.
nformation-processing theory
fixed-interval schedule
single-case experiment
demonstrations - models - and illustrations
10. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.
associative play
single-case experiment
QAIT model
top-down processing
11. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.
egocentric
negative correlation
intimacy vs. isolation
perception
12. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English
vicarious learning
distributed practice
english immersion
reciprocal teaching
13. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
expectancy-valence model
group contingencies
flashbulb memory
mediated learning
14. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.
initial-letter strategies
paired bilingual education
applied behavior analysis
elaboration
15. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.
centration
generativity vs self-absorption
analogies
compensatory preschool programs
16. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.
industry vs. inferiority
inert knowledge
retroactive inhibition
classical conditioning
17. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)
large muscle development
sensory register
industry vs. inferiority
mediated learning
18. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.
antecedent stimuli
expectancy theory
associative play
short-term/ working memory
19. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.
generalization
self-actualization
psychosocial crisis
theory
20. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others
norm-referenced interpretations
bilingual education
reversibility
flashbulb memory
21. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow
private speech
instrumental enrichment
deficiency needs
intelligence
22. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait
extinction
equilibration
criterion-related evidence
constructivist theories of learning
23. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.
serial learning
self-esteem
emergent literacy
attention
24. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.
QAIT model
knowledge construction
observational learning
constructivism
25. 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
advance organizers
compensatory preschool programs
assimilation
effective use of independent practice time
26. Actions that show respect and caring for others.
prosocial behaviors
removal punishment
object permanence
schedule of reinforcement
27. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)
expectancy theory
object permanence
concrete operational stage
process-product studies
28. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.
growth needs
cognitive learning theories
metacognitive skills
class inclusion
29. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.
compensatory education
note-taking
dual code theory of memory
heteronomous morality
30. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.
meaningful learning
presentation punishment
learned helplessness
communicating positive expectations
31. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.
semantic memory
secondary reinforcer
vicarious learning
withitness
32. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems
psychosocial theory
cognitive learning theories
sign systems
preoperational stage
33. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
transfer of learning
aptitude-treatment interaction
cognitive development
mock participation
34. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory
keyword method
semantic memory
adaptation
mnemonics
35. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.
private speech
zone of proximal development
automaticity
primary reinforcer
36. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation
expectancy-valence model
individualized instruction
schema theory
self-regulated learners
37. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question
moral dilemmas
equity pedagogy
vicarious learning
wait time
38. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.
theory
preconventional level of morality
sex-role behavior
postconventional level of morality
39. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
reversibility
unconditioned stimulus
large muscle development
long-term memory
40. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.
automaticity
positive correlation
extinction
dual code theory of memory
41. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary
rote learning
continuous theories of development
english immersion
dual code theory of memory
42. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
cues
independent practice
recency effect
direct instruction
43. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
mock participation
applied behavior analysis
long-term memory
untracking
44. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.
growth needs
criterion-related evidence
mock participation
summarizing
45. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
behavior-content matrix
aptitude-treatment interaction
social comparison
experiment
46. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences
transitional bilingual education
external locus of control
episodic memory
expectancy theory
47. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
reinforcer
continuous theories of development
summarizing
rote learning
48. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison
enactment
top-down processing
associative play
choral responses
49. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)
formal operational stage
moratorium
randomized field experiment
identity diffusion
50. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)
classical conditioning
cognitive apprenticeship
treatment
large muscle development