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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






2. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






3. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






4. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






5. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






7. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






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






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






18. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






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






20. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






21. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






22. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






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






25. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






27. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






28. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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






30. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






32. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






33. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






34. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






36. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






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






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






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






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






42. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






44. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






45. Play that occurs alone.






46. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






47. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






49. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






50. 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.