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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






3. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






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






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






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






7. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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






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






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






11. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






12. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






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






15. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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






19. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






22. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






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






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






26. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






30. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






31. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






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






34. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






36. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






37. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






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






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






40. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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41. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






43. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






45. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






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






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






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






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






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