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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






3. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






4. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






7. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






9. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






10. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






25. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






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






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






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






30. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






38. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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)






44. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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






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






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






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






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






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