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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






3. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






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






6. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






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






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






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






10. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






11. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






13. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






14. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






15. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






17. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






18. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






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






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






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






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






23. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






27. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






29. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






30. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






32. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






34. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






35. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






43. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






44. 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.






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






46. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






47. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






48. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






49. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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