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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






3. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






5. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






6. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






8. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






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






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






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






18. 5 to 9 pieces of information






19. 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.






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






21. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






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






23. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






24. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






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






27. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






28. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






30. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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


38. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






39. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






40. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






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






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






43. Perception of and response to different stimuli






44. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






46. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






48. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






49. 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.






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