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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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






2. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






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






5. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






8. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






11. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






12. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






13. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






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






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






17. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






18. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






19. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






20. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






22. 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






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






24. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






26. 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)






27. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






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






29. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






30. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






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






33. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






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






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






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






37. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






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






39. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






41. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






42. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






43. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






44. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






47. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






48. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






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