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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






2. Play that occurs alone.






3. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






4. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






5. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






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






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






9. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






10. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






12. 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.






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






14. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






15. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






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






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






19. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






21. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






23. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






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






26. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






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






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






30. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






32. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






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






35. Research + common sense






36. 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)






37. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






38. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






39. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






40. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






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






43. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.