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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






2. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






3. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






4. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






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






7. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






8. 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






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Research + common sense






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






17. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






20. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






23. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






24. 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.






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






26. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






29. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






30. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






31. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






32. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






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






37. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






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






39. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






40. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






41. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






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






45. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






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






49. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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