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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






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






9. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






10. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






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






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






21. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






22. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






23. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






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






26. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






27. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






35. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






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






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






40. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






41. Events that precede behaviors






42. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






43. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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