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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






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






4. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






5. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






6. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






7. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






13. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






16. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






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






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






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






27. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






29. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






32. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






34. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






35. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






36. 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






37. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






38. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






39. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






40. 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






41. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






42. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






43. Learning of a list of items in any order.






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






45. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






46. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






47. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






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






50. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).