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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






3. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






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






5. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






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






8. 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)






9. Research + common sense






10. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






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






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






14. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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






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






17. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






18. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






19. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






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






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






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






24. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






26. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






27. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






29. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






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






39. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






40. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






48. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






49. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






50. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)