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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






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






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






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






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






7. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






8. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






9. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






10. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






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






13. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






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






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






17. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






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






19. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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






24. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






25. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






26. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






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






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






29. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






30. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






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






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






33. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






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






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






37. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






39. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






41. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






42. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






44. 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.






45. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






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






48. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






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