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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






3. The study of learning and teaching.






4. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






5. 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.






6. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






8. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






9. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






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






12. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






16. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






18. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






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






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






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






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






23. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






25. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






26. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






29. 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)






30. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






33. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






35. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






36. 5 to 9 pieces of information






37. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






38. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






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






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






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






42. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






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






44. 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.






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






46. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






47. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






48. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






49. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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