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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






2. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






3. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






4. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






6. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






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






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






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






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






12. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






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






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






16. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






17. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






19. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






20. 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.






21. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






23. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






24. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






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






26. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






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






29. 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






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






31. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






32. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






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






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






36. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






38. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






40. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






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






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






45. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






46. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






49. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






50. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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