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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






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






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






4. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






5. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






8. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






10. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






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






18. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






19. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






20. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






23. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






25. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






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






27. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






31. Research + common sense






32. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






34. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






36. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






38. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






40. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






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






43. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






45. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






46. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






47. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






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






50. A person's interpretation of stimuli