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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






2. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






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






4. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






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






7. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






16. 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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






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






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






29. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






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






33. 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)






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






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






36. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






38. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






39. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






42. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






45. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






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






47. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






48. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






49. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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