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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






4. Perception of and response to different stimuli






5. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






6. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






7. 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






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






9. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






11. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Play that occurs alone.






19. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






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






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






23. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






24. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






25. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






27. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






28. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






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






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






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






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






33. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






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






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






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






38. Research + common sense






39. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






40. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






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






43. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






45. 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.






46. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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






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






49. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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