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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






2. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






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






6. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






8. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






9. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






17. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






18. 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.






19. 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






20. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






21. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






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






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






24. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






25. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






28. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






30. 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






31. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






32. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






35. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






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






37. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






39. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






41. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






42. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






43. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






44. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






45. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






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






48. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






49. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






50. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.