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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






2. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






4. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






5. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






6. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






15. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






16. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






18. 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.






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






20. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






30. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






31. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






32. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






40. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






42. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






43. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






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






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






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






47. 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.






48. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






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