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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






2. 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.






3. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






4. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






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






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






7. 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






8. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






9. The study of learning and teaching.






10. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






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






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






14. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






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






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






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






18. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






25. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






26. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






27. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






28. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






31. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






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






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






36. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






37. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






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






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






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






41. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






43. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






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






45. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






46. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






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






48. 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.






49. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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