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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






2. 5 to 9 pieces of information






3. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






6. Events that precede behaviors






7. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






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






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






10. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






11. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






13. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






15. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






16. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






17. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






18. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






19. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






20. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






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






32. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






43. 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






44. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






46. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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






48. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






50. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response







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