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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






2. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






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






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






5. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






6. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






7. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






9. 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.






10. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






11. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






13. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






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






15. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






16. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






17. Events that precede behaviors






18. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






19. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






21. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






23. Continuation (of behavior)






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






25. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






26. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






27. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






28. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






29. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






30. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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






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






33. 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






34. Perception of and response to different stimuli






35. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






36. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






37. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






39. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






40. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






41. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






43. Play that occurs alone.






44. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






46. A person's interpretation of stimuli






47. 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






48. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






49. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






50. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others