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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






3. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






4. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






6. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






7. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






9. Research + common sense






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






11. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






12. 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.






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






14. 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)






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






16. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






17. Perception of and response to different stimuli






18. 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.






19. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






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






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






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






24. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






25. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






27. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






29. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






30. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






32. 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






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






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






35. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






36. Continuation (of behavior)






37. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






38. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






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






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






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






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






43. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






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






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






47. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






48. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






49. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






50. Actions that show respect and caring for others.