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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






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






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






4. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






5. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






6. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






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






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






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






11. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






12. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






13. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






14. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






15. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






16. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






17. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






25. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






26. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






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






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






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






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






32. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






33. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






34. 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.






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






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






37. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






39. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






40. 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






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






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






43. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






44. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






45. Events that precede behaviors






46. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






48. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






49. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






50. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.