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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






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






4. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






6. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






7. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






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






10. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






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






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






15. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






17. Research + common sense






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






19. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






23. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






24. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






33. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






34. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






36. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






37. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






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






39. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






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






42. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






43. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






46. 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.






47. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






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






50. Environmental conditions that activate the senses