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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






3. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






5. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






6. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






21. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






23. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






25. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






26. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






27. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






28. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






29. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






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






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






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






40. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






41. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






42. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






44. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






45. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






46. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






47. 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)






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






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






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