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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






2. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






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






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






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






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






8. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






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






11. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






18. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






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






21. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






26. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






27. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






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






30. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






34. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






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






37. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






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






40. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






41. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






42. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






44. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






45. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






46. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






47. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






49. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






50. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)