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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






5. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






6. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






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






9. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






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






12. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






13. 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.






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






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






16. Perception of and response to different stimuli






17. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






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






20. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






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






22. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






24. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






25. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






26. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






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






28. Research + common sense






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






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






31. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






32. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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






34. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






36. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






38. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






39. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






40. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






44. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






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






48. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






49. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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