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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






11. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






12. 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)






13. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






14. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






15. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






18. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






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






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






23. 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)






24. Continuation (of behavior)






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






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






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






28. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






29. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






30. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






31. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






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






34. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






36. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






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






39. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






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






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






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






50. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response