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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






3. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






5. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






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






9. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






10. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






11. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






12. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






14. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






15. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






16. The study of learning and teaching.






17. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






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






19. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






20. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






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






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






24. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






27. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






29. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






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






31. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






32. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






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






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






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. Research + common sense






38. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






41. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






42. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.