Educational Psychology Vocab Crossword

3. Specific sets of behaviors that people expect in certain situations.
5. The process by which a person's ability to think and reason grows.
6. Hinders learning or performance on a task.
7. The process of thinking about one’s own though processes and learning patterns.
9. Helps learning or performance on another task.
11. When students experience different cultural norms at home and school.
14. Research method that involves intentionally introducing a intervention and observing results.
16. The collection of beliefs, values, behaviors, and practices that are shared by a group of people, such as a nation or religious group.
17. The gradual development of an individual's concept of right or wrong – conscious, religious values, social attitudes and certain behavior.
19. Behavior that benefits others more than yourself.
20. Research method that aims to describe a population without changing any variables.
21. Involves learning through association. Occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus.
22. General tendency to respond in particular ways to one’s physical and social environments.

1. Research method that examines the relationship between variables without controlling them.
2. When students adopt some of the new culture’s values and customs.
4. Cognitive theory that explains how the human mind processes information.
8. Focuses on reinforcement and punishment to shape behavior.
10. The mental frameworks that help people understand and interpret the world.
12. When students experience confusion about the behaviors expected of them in new setting.
13. Theory that states learning occurs as a result of social interaction
15. Research method that involves collecting and analyzing numerical data.
18. Research method that aims to explore and understand non-numerical data