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Educational Psychology Vocab

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1. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






3. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






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






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






6. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






8. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






9. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






11. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






19. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






28. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






30. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






31. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






32. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






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






34. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






35. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






36. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






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






39. 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.






40. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






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






43. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






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






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






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






48. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






49. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






50. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.







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