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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






2. 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.






3. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






5. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






6. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






7. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






9. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






11. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






13. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






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






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






17. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






19. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






20. A person's interpretation of stimuli






21. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






22. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






24. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






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






26. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






27. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






28. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






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






33. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






34. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






35. 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.






36. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






38. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






39. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






40. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






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






44. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






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






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






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






50. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.