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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






3. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






5. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






8. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






9. Events that precede behaviors






10. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






11. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






13. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






15. 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






16. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






17. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






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






22. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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






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






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






26. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






28. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






29. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






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






32. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






34. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






36. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






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






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






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






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






42. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






43. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






45. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






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






47. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






49. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






50. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.