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






3. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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






5. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






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






9. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






10. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






13. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






14. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






15. 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.






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






17. Play that occurs alone.






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






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. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






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






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






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






24. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






25. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






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






28. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






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






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






32. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






34. 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.






35. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






36. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






39. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






40. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






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






42. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






43. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






45. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






47. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






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






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