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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






2. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






3. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






4. 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.






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






6. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






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






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






9. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






12. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






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






16. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






17. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






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






19. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






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






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






23. Perception of and response to different stimuli






24. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






25. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






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






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






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






29. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






30. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






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






32. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






33. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






34. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






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






36. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






45. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






46. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






47. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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






49. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






50. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples







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