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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






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






5. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






6. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






7. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






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






10. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






11. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






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






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






14. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






15. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






16. 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.






17. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






18. 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






19. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






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






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






22. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






24. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






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






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






28. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






30. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






32. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






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






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






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






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






38. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






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






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






42. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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