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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






2. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






3. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






6. Research + common sense






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






8. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






10. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






16. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






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






19. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






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






22. 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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23. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






25. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






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






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






30. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






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






32. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






33. 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






34. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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






36. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






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






39. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






40. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






41. Continuation (of behavior)






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






43. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






44. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






45. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






46. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






48. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






49. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






50. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)