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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






2. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






4. 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)






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






6. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






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






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






10. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






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






15. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






16. 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.






17. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






20. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






24. The study of learning and teaching.






25. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






26. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






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






31. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






32. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






34. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






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






37. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






38. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






40. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






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. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






46. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






48. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






49. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






50. Environmental conditions that activate the senses