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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






2. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






3. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






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






5. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






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






8. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






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






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






12. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






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






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






18. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






20. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






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






22. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






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






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






26. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






28. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






29. Research + common sense






30. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






31. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






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






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






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






36. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






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






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






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






41. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






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






43. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation