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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Play that occurs alone.






9. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






10. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






12. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






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






15. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






18. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






20. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






21. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






22. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






23. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






25. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






32. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






33. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






35. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






36. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






37. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






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






40. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






44. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






45. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






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






47. 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






48. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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







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