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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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)






2. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






3. 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






4. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






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






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






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






9. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






10. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






11. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






13. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






14. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






15. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






16. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






18. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






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






21. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






22. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






23. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






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






26. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






28. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






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






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






39. Play that occurs alone.






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






41. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






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






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






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






46. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






47. 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)






48. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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