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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






2. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






3. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






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






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






7. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






9. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






11. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






12. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






13. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






16. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






18. 5 to 9 pieces of information






19. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






20. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






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






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






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






25. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






26. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






27. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






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






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






31. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






32. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






33. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






35. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






37. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






39. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






40. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






41. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






42. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






43. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






45. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






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






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






49. Learning of a list of items in any order.






50. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.