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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Cognitive style in which separate parts of a pattern are perceived and analyzed.






2. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success is dependent on personal effort and abilities.






3. An explanation of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






4. Important events that are fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






5. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.






6. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to high scores on another.






7. Assessment of a student's ability to perform tasks - not just knowledge.






8. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.






9. Students who have abilities or problems so significant that the students require special education or other services to reach their potential.






10. An act that is followed by a favorable effect is more likely to be repeated in similar situations; an act that is followed by an unfavorable effect is less likely to be repeated.






11. Study of a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - and after the treatment is applied.






12. A statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in a distribution of scores.






13. Computer programs that model real-life phenomena to promote problem solving and motivate interest in the areas concerned.






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






15. (Cognitive) a developmental view of how moral reasoning evolves from a low to a high level. Argues that people with low moral level are unable to conceive acts of aggression as being immoral.

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16. Modeling provides an alternative to shaping for teaching new behaviors - teachers & parents must model appropriate behaviors and take care that they don't model inappropriate ones






17. Use of mental images to improve memory.






18. Condition characterized by extreme restlessness and short attention spans relative to peers.






19. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






21. Measuring students' learning at the end of a lesson






22. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action. Eventually these verbalizations are internalized as silent inner speech.






23. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






24. The distinction between conversational fluency (basic interpersonal communication skills - or BICS) - and academic language (cognitive/academic language proficiency - or CALP).






25. A systematic linguistic analysis of the structures of the learners' native and target languages. Contrastive analysis can be performed at different levels of language--sound - lexicon - grammar - meaning - and rhetoric.






26. Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.






27. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances - a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression - a tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears associated with personal or school problems






28. During the period of life between 11 and 12 years of age and onward during which - Piaget believed - children begin to apply formal rules of logic and to gain the ability to think abstractly and reflectively; thinking shifts from the real to the poss






29. Movements of the fine muscles of the hand.






30. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement






31. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples.






32. Another term for short-term memory.






33. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow.






34. Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned in a given context.






35. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






37. Selection by chance into different treatment groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.






38. Procedure used to test the effects of a treatment.






39. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive learning principles for changing your own behavior by using self-talk and self-instruction.






40. A set of principles that explain and relate certain phenomena.






41. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to attribute intentional states and human characteristics to inanimate objects.






42. Vygotsky's term for the process of constructing a mental representation of external physical actions or cognitive operations that first occur through social interaction.






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






44. Tendency to analyze oneself & one's own thoughts






45. The premature choice of a role - often done to reinforce self-concept.






46. Status reflects the degree to which teens have made a firm commitment to religious and political values and future occupation.

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47. Direct injury to the brain - such as a tearing of nerve fibers - bruising of the brain tissues against the skull - brain stem trauma - or swelling.






48. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to confuse physical and psychological events in their attempts to develop theories of the internal world of the mind.






49. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






50. Individuals characterized by specific impairments in speech and/or language