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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






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






4. Continuation (of behavior)






5. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






7. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






10. 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






11. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






13. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






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






22. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






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






25. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






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






29. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






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






32. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






33. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






34. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






35. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






36. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






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






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






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






40. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






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






43. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






44. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






45. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






47. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






48. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






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






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