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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






3. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






4. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






5. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






7. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






8. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






11. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






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






15. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






16. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






18. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






19. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






21. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






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






24. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






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






27. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






28. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






29. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






30. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






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






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






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






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






35. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






36. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






37. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






38. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






39. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






40. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






43. Perception of and response to different stimuli






44. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






46. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






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






48. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






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