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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






3. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






4. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.






5. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






13. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






14. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






15. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






18. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






19. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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






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






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






30. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






33. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






35. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






36. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






37. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






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






40. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






41. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






42. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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






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






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






46. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






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






49. 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






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