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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






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






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






4. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






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






7. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






9. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






11. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






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






13. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






15. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






16. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






17. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






18. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






19. Perception of and response to different stimuli






20. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






21. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






22. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






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






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






26. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






27. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






29. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






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






33. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






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






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






37. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






38. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






39. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






40. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






41. 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






42. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






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






45. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






46. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






47. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






48. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






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






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







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