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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






2. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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






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






7. Research + common sense






8. 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.






9. Play that occurs alone.






10. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






11. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






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






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






15. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






16. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






17. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






18. 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






19. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






20. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






21. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






23. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






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






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






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






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






28. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






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






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






32. 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






33. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






40. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






49. 5 to 9 pieces of information






50. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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