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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






2. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






6. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






7. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






8. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






9. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






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






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






13. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






14. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






17. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






19. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






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






21. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






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






24. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






25. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






26. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






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






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






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






30. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






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






32. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






33. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






34. 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.






35. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






36. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






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






38. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






39. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






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






42. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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