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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






3. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






4. A person's interpretation of stimuli






5. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






8. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






10. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






11. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






13. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






14. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






15. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






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






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






18. 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.






19. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






20. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






21. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






22. The study of learning and teaching.






23. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






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






25. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






27. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






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






30. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






31. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






38. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






39. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






47. 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.






48. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






50. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.