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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






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






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






4. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






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






7. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






8. A change in an individual that results from experience.






9. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






11. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






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






14. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






15. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






16. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






19. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






21. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






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






24. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






25. Learning of a list of items in any order.






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






27. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






28. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






29. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






30. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






31. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






34. 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)






35. Events that precede behaviors






36. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






38. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






39. The study of learning and teaching.






40. 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






41. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






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






44. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






48. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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