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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






3. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






4. 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)






5. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






7. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






9. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






10. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






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






14. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






15. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






17. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






18. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






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






21. Learning of a list of items in any order.






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






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






24. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






25. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






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






28. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






29. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






30. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






31. Continuation (of behavior)






32. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






41. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






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






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






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






46. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






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






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






50. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response