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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






4. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






5. 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






6. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






8. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






9. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






10. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






11. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






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






13. 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)






14. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






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






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






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






18. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






21. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






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






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






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






26. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






28. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






30. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






31. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






33. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






34. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






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






36. Events that precede behaviors






37. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






38. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






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






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






42. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






43. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






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






46. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






47. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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