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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






2. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






5. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






8. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






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






11. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






12. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






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






15. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






17. 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.






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






19. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






25. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






27. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






28. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






29. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






30. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






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






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






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






35. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






37. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






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






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






41. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






44. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






46. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






47. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






48. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






50. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.