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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






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






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






5. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






7. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






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






9. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






10. 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






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






12. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






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






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






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






16. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






17. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






18. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






19. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






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






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






23. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






24. Learning of a list of items in any order.






25. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






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






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






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






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






30. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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






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






33. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






34. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






40. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






41. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






42. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






43. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






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






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






49. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






50. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).