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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






3. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






4. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






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






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






7. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






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






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






10. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






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






12. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






13. Continuation (of behavior)






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






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






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






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






18. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






19. 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.






20. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






22. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






24. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






27. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






28. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






30. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






31. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






32. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






33. 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.






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






35. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






37. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






38. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






39. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






40. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






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






42. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






43. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






44. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






45. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






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






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






49. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






50. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.