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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






3. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






5. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






6. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






7. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






8. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






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






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






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






12. Continuation (of behavior)






13. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






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






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






16. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






18. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






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






21. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






22. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






23. Play that occurs alone.






24. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






34. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






36. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






37. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






38. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






40. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






41. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






42. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






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






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






46. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






47. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






49. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






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