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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






2. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






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






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






6. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






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






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






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






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






12. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






14. Learning of a list of items in any order.






15. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






16. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






17. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






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






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






20. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






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






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






24. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






25. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






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






29. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






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






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






32. Research + common sense






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






34. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






36. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






37. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






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






39. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






41. 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.






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






43. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






44. Events that precede behaviors






45. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






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






49. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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