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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






3. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






5. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






6. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






9. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






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






20. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






21. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






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






24. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






25. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






26. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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






30. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






44. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






45. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






47. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






48. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






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






50. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times