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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






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






4. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






5. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






7. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






8. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






9. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






10. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






11. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






12. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






13. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






14. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






15. 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)






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






17. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






18. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






19. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






20. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






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






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






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






24. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






25. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






26. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






27. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






28. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






29. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






30. 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.






31. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






32. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






33. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






34. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






35. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






36. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






37. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






38. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






39. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






40. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






41. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






42. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






43. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






44. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






45. Continuation (of behavior)






46. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






47. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






48. Learning of a list of items in any order.






49. The study of learning and teaching.






50. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure