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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. 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)






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






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






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






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






7. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






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






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






12. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






13. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






20. 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.






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






22. The study of learning and teaching.






23. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






25. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






26. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






37. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






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






40. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






42. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






43. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






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






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






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






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






49. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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







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