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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






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






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






5. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






6. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






7. 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.






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






9. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






11. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






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






15. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






16. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






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






19. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






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






24. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






25. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






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






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






28. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






35. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






36. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






38. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






39. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






40. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






41. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






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






43. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






45. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






46. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






49. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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