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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






3. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






5. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






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






8. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






9. 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

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10. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






17. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






18. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






25. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






27. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






28. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






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






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






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






33. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






35. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. Research + common sense






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






42. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






43. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






44. 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






45. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






46. Continuation (of behavior)






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






48. Play that occurs alone.






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






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