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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






2. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






3. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






5. The study of learning and teaching.






6. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






7. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






8. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






9. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






10. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






12. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






14. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






16. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






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






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






20. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






25. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






26. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






27. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






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






29. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






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






32. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






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






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






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






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






38. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






40. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






41. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






42. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






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






45. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






46. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






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






49. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






50. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.