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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






2. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






4. 5 to 9 pieces of information






5. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






6. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






7. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






16. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






17. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






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






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






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






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






22. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






23. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






24. 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






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






26. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






34. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






35. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






37. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






38. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






39. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






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






43. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






44. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






45. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






46. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






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






49. 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






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