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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






2. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






3. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






5. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






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






8. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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






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






20. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






23. 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.






24. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






25. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






29. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






30. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






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






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






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






34. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






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






36. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






37. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






38. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






40. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






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






43. Continuation (of behavior)






44. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






45. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






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






48. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






49. 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.






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