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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






15. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






17. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






18. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






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






23. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






24. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






25. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






26. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






27. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






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






30. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






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






32. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






33. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






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






36. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






37. 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)






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






39. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.






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






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






42. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






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






44. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






47. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






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






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






50. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.