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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






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






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






5. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






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






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






13. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






16. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






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






21. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






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






24. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






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






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






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






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






30. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






31. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






32. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






34. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






35. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






37. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






38. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






39. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






41. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






42. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.







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