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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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. 5 to 9 pieces of information






4. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






5. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






6. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






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






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






10. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






13. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






15. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






17. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






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






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






20. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






21. 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)






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






23. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






24. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






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






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






28. Continuation (of behavior)






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






30. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






31. Play that occurs alone.






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






33. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






34. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






35. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






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






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






39. 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






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






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






43. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






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






45. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






46. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






48. 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.






49. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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