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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






2. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






4. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






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






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






8. 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






9. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






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






11. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






12. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






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






16. The study of learning and teaching.






17. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






18. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






19. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






20. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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






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






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






24. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






26. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






27. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






28. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






31. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






32. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






33. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






34. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






41. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






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






43. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. 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