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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






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






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






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






6. 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)






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. Perception of and response to different stimuli






12. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






13. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






14. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






17. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






18. The study of learning and teaching.






19. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






20. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






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






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






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






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






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






26. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






27. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






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






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






31. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






32. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






33. 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






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






35. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






36. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






43. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






46. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






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






48. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






49. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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