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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






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






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






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






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






7. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






8. 5 to 9 pieces of information






9. 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)






10. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






11. Play that occurs alone.






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






13. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






14. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






15. A person's interpretation of stimuli






16. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






17. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






18. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






19. 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)






20. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






21. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






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






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






24. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






25. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






27. Events that precede behaviors






28. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






30. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






31. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






32. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






34. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






35. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






37. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






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






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






49. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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







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