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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






2. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






3. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






4. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






6. 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






7. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






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






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






11. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






13. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






29. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






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






33. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






35. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






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






38. Perception of and response to different stimuli






39. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






40. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






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






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






43. 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)






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






45. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






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






47. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






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






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