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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






8. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






9. Research + common sense






10. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






11. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






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






14. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






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






17. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






25. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






28. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






30. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






32. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






33. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






35. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






36. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






37. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






38. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






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






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






43. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






45. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






47. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






49. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






50. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them