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Educational Psychology Vocab

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1. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






2. Play that occurs alone.






3. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






4. 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.






5. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






6. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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






8. 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.






9. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






11. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






13. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






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






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






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






18. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






19. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






21. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






22. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






24. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






26. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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






28. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






30. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






34. 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.






35. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






36. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






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






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






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






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






42. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






43. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






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






45. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






46. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






47. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






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






50. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






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