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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






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






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






4. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






5. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






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






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






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






11. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






20. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






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






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






32. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






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






34. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






35. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






36. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






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






38. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






40. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






42. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






43. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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