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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






3. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






4. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






5. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






7. The study of learning and teaching.






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. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






10. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






11. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






13. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






16. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






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






18. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






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






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






22. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






23. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






24. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






25. 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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26. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






30. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






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






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






34. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






37. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






38. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






40. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






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






43. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






44. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






45. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






46. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






48. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






50. 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