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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






3. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






11. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






12. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






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






14. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






15. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






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






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






20. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






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






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






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






24. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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






27. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






28. 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






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






30. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






33. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






34. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






35. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






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






37. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






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






40. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






41. 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.






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






43. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






44. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






45. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






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






49. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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