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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






3. Play that occurs alone.






4. 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.






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






6. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






7. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






8. 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






9. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






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






12. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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






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






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






16. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






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






19. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






20. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






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






23. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






27. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






28. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






30. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






31. 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)






32. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






33. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






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






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






36. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






37. 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.






38. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






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






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






41. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






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






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






44. 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






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






46. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






47. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






48. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






49. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






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