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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






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






9. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






10. 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






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






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






13. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






14. A person's interpretation of stimuli






15. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






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






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






19. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






20. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






21. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






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






23. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






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






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






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






29. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






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






31. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






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






33. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






34. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






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






37. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






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






40. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






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






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






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






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






46. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






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






49. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






50. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.