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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






5. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






6. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






8. 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)






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






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






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






12. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






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






15. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






16. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






17. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






18. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






24. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






25. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






26. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






27. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






28. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






29. The study of learning and teaching.






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






31. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






33. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






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






36. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






37. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






38. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






40. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






41. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






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






43. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






44. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






47. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






50. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.