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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






2. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






3. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






4. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






5. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






6. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






7. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






8. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






9. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






10. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






11. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






12. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






13. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






14. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






15. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






16. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






17. 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






18. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






19. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






20. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






21. Research + common sense






22. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






23. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






24. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






25. 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.






26. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






27. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






28. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






29. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






30. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






31. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






32. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






33. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






34. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






35. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






36. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






37. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






38. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






39. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






40. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






41. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






42. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






43. 5 to 9 pieces of information






44. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






45. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






46. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






47. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






48. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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49. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






50. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.