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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






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






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






4. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






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






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






8. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






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






12. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






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






14. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






15. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






16. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






17. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






18. 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.






19. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






20. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






23. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






24. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






27. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






28. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






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






31. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






32. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






33. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






35. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






37. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






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






39. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






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






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






43. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






45. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






47. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






48. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






49. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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