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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






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






3. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






5. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






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






7. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






8. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






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






11. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






12. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






13. 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






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






15. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






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






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






19. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






20. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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






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






23. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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






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






26. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






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






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






30. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






32. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






33. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






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






36. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






38. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






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






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






42. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






43. Research + common sense






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






45. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






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






47. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






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






50. 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







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