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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






3. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






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






5. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






6. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






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






9. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






11. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






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






14. 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.






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






16. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






17. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






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






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






21. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






22. Play that occurs alone.






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






24. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






25. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






26. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






28. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






30. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






31. 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






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






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






34. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






36. 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.






37. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






39. 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






40. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






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






43. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






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






46. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






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






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