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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






2. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






3. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






5. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






6. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






8. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






9. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






11. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






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






13. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






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






22. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






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






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






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






26. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






27. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






30. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






33. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






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






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






36. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






37. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






39. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






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






42. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






43. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






44. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






45. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






46. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






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






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






49. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






50. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.