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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






3. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






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






6. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






7. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






8. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






12. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






14. 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






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






16. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






17. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






18. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






19. 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.






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






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






22. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






23. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






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






25. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






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






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






29. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






30. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






32. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






33. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






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






35. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






43. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






45. 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.






46. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






47. 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






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






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






50. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.