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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






4. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






5. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






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






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






8. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






9. Research + common sense






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






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






12. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






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






15. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






17. 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)






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






19. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






20. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






22. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






23. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






25. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






26. 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)






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






28. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






29. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






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






32. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






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






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






35. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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






37. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






39. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






40. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






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






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






44. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






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






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






48. 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






49. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






50. Environmental conditions that activate the senses







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