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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






8. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






9. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






10. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






13. 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.






14. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






16. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






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






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






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






20. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






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






23. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






24. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






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






29. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






30. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






31. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






32. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






33. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






34. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






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






49. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






50. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)