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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






5. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






16. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






17. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






18. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






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






22. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






24. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






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






26. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






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






30. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






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






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






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






35. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






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. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






41. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






42. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






43. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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







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