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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






3. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






4. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






5. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






7. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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






13. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






15. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






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






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






19. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






20. Research + common sense






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






22. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






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






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






25. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






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






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






28. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






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






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






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






41. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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