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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






4. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






5. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






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






7. Research + common sense






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






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






10. 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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11. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






12. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






21. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






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






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






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






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






27. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






28. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






30. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






31. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






32. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






33. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






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






48. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






49. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






50. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others