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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






6. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






7. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






8. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






9. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






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






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






13. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






14. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






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






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






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






19. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






21. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






22. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






26. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






28. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






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






31. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






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






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






47. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






49. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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







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