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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






3. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






5. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






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






11. 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)






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






18. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






19. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






27. 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






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






29. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






30. Continuation (of behavior)






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






32. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






34. 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






35. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






36. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






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






38. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






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






41. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






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






44. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






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






46. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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






49. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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