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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






2. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






5. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






6. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






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






9. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






10. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






11. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






12. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






13. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






14. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






15. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






16. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






18. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






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






21. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






22. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






23. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






24. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






25. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






26. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






27. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






28. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






29. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






30. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






31. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






32. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






35. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






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






38. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






39. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






40. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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






42. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






43. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






44. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






47. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






48. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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