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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.






2. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






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






4. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






6. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






8. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






9. Events that precede behaviors






10. A person's interpretation of stimuli






11. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






12. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






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






14. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






23. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






25. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






26. The study of learning and teaching.






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






28. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






29. 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)






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






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






32. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






33. Research + common sense






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






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






36. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






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






40. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






46. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






47. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






48. 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.






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






50. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.