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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






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






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






4. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






5. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






6. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






8. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






10. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






11. 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.






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






13. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






16. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






18. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






19. 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






20. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






21. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






23. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






24. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






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






28. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






29. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






31. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






33. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






34. Research + common sense






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






42. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






43. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






44. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






45. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






46. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






47. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






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






50. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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