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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






2. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






3. Events that precede behaviors






4. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






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






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






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






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






10. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






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






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






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






14. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






16. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






17. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






18. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






19. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






20. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






21. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






22. Research + common sense






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






24. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






25. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






26. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






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






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






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






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






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






32. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






34. 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






35. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






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






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






39. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






40. Perception of and response to different stimuli






41. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






43. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






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. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






47. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






48. 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.






49. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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