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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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






2. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






4. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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






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






7. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






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






10. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






11. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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






14. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






15. The study of learning and teaching.






16. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






17. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






19. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






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






22. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






24. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






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






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






27. Research + common sense






28. 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.






29. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






30. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






33. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






34. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






36. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






37. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






38. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






39. 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






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






41. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






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






44. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. 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






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