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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






2. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






3. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






19. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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






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






22. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






23. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






24. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






25. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






27. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






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






29. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






30. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






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






33. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






35. Continuation (of behavior)






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






37. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






39. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






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






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






43. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






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






46. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






47. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






48. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






49. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






50. 5 to 9 pieces of information