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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






11. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






12. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






15. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






16. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






18. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






19. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






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






21. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






25. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






27. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






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






29. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






30. Continuation (of behavior)






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






32. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






33. 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.






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






35. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






36. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






37. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






39. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






40. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






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






42. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






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






45. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






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






47. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






48. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






50. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.