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Elementary Teaching
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1. The application of behavioral learning principles to understand and change behavior.
Applied behavior analysis
Pegword method
punishment
Psychoanalytic Theory
2. Way of perceiving - believing evaluating and behaving
Self-regulated learners
culture
Recency effect
Normal distribution
3. A term used by Piaget to describe how children mold new information to fit their existing schemes in order to better adapt to their environment; contrast with accommodation.
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Validity
Constructed Response
assimilation
4. 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
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
Life Adjustment Movement
Behavior modification
Transfer-appropriate processing
5. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation.
Progressivism
Sensory impairments
Summarization
Process-product studies
6. Stage at which children develop skills of logical reasoning and conservation but can use theses kills only when dealing with familiar situations.
Possible signs of vision loss
Metacognition
Psychosocial Crisis
Concrete operational stage
7. Critical issue accompanying each of Erickson's 8 stages of development that a person must address as they pass through the stage. Failure to do so may keep person from being successful in later stages.
Project Head Start
Initiative v. Guilt Stage
Acceleration programs
Psychosocial Crisis
8. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects as well as relationships among its subordinate classes.
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
Class inclusion
Valentine Huay
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
9. Meichenbaum's developmental program that helps children control and regulate their behavior; children are taught self-regulatory strategies to use as a verbal tool to inhibit impulses - control impulses and frustration - and promote reflection.
Vision Loss
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
cognitive behavior modification
Foreclosure
10. The practice of grouping students by ability level in separate classes within-class ability
Between-class ability grouping
Discontinuous theory of development
interindividual variation
Expectancy-valence model
11. The process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise in interaction with an expert - either an adult or an older or more advanced peer.
Cognitive apprenticeship
Gifted and Talented Act
Selected Response
Random Assignment
12. Adolescent establishes an identity in which clear decisions about occupations and ideologies have been consciously made
Language Disorders
Southern Colonies
Identity Achievement
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection
13. Different views of males and females - often favoring one gender over the other.
Field independence
Mapping
horizontal decalage
Gender bias
14. Increased in hormonal levels occur - resulting in a growth spurt - males generally become taller than females and develop deeper voices and characteristic patterns of facial and body hair; increased strength and heart and lung capacity give the child
Language Disorders
Erik Erickson moratorium
Interference
Ages 12 - 18
15. Strategy for memorization in which images are used to link lists of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.
Kalamazoo Case
Disability
Continuous theory of development
Pegword method
16. Teaching Methods Lecture - practice and feedback - questioning.
Short-term memory
Postmodernism
Vision Impairments
Essentialism
17. When the teacher demonstrates an activity or lesson before having students do the lesson or activity on their own
Within-class ability grouping
In 1975 - Congress enacted a federal law known as Public Law (P.L.) 94-142 or the
Long-term memory
modeling
18. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
Outlining
Seriation
Orthopedic Impairments
Preconventional level of morality
19. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed
Formative Assessment
Progressivism
Assessment
Interference
20. Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm - pitch - and timbre; appreciation of the forms of musical expression
Musical Intelligence
Learning styles
Middle Colonies
Attention
21. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.
Grade-equivalent scores
Project Head Start
Mock participation
Ages 7 - 11
22. A statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in a distribution of scores.
Fixed-interval schedule
Growth needs
Adaptation
Standard deviation
23. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.
Within-class ability grouping
collective monologue
Stage 5: Social Contract Orientation
Reflectivity
24. Wrote anti-papism literature influencing exclusion of Catholic schools from public funding
Attribution theory
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
Robert J. Breckenridge
Benjamin Rush
25. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Flashbulb memory
punishment
Discontinuous theory of development
26. Educational Implications (1) Literature written by feminist/minority authors should be equal to that of others. (2) Historical events should be studied from the perspective of power - status - and marginalized people's struggle within these cont
Postmodernism
external locus of control
Moratorium
Variable-interval schedule
27. Decreased ability to learn new information because of interference of present knowledge.
Loci method
Language Disorders
Proactive inhibition
Aptitude test
28. Program in which rewards or punishments are given to a class as a whole for adhering to or violating rules of conduct.
Reliability
adaptation
Group contingency program
monitor hypothesis
29. The mechanism by which second language learners process - store - and retrieve conscious language rules.
Inert knowledge
monitor hypothesis
Object permanence
Progressivism
30. Facial abnormalities; heart defects; low birth weight; motor dysfunctions
Physical characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
interindividual variation
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Behavior content matrix
31. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.
Moratorium
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Culture
Hearing loss
32. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).
mental retardation
Phillipe Pinel
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Conservation
33. Good behavior is what pleases/helps others and is approved of by them = can earn approval by being nice.
Identity Diffusion
top-down processing
collaborative consultation
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
34. The distinction between conversational fluency (basic interpersonal communication skills - or BICS) - and academic language (cognitive/academic language proficiency - or CALP).
Distractors
Experimental Group
BICS/CALP
Allocated time
35. A theory that relates the probability and incentive of success to motivation.
emotional or behavior disorders
Postmodernism
Motivation
Expectancy-valence model
36. 18 mo to 3 yrs.; Goal is to gain the ability to do things for oneself. failure to gain a sense of autonomy leads to a sense of powerlessness/incompetence. Child may begin to doubt her abilities & feel guilty when she tries to show some independence.
Autonomy v. Doubt and Shame Stage
Multiple intelligences
Postmodernism
emotional or behavior disorders
37. Education Many students educated in parochial schools = taught in their native language & family's religious beliefs were an integral part of the curriculum
Loci method
Middle Colonies
Fair & ethical testing procedures
Peer tutoring
38. Goal is to accept one's accomplishments and life as having been worthwhile & come to terms with one's impending death. Failure to do so results in an overwhelming feeling of despair.
Integrity v. Despair Stage Late Adulthood
Progressivism
Stage 4: Law and Order Orientation
communication disorders
39. Motivation that stems from one's own needs or desires - not requiring extrinsic incentives.
learning assessment
Stage 5: Social Contract Orientation
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
intrinsic motivation
40. P.L. 94-142
Starting in 1983 - this was amended several times and expanded its range of programs to include early intervention programs for infants/toddlers with disabilities and transition programs.
Joplin Plan
Educational Psychology
Bilingual education
41. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.
PQ4R method
Control Group
Whole-class discussion
Constructivist theories of learning
42. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.
Reinforcer
Heteronomous morality
interindividual variation
Stem
43. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action. Eventually these verbalizations are internalized as silent inner speech.
collective monologue
Private speech
Under IDEA - a student is eligible for special education services if he/she has a disability and because of the disability - the student has
Perennialism
44. Disability
Refers to a condition that a person has.
Readiness training
Seatwork
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
45. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.
Long-term memory
Know Nothing Party
microskills
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
46. Criterion-referenced tests focusing on important skills students are expected to have mastered to qualify for promotion or graduation.
Stage 5: Social Contract Orientation
Simulation software
unconditioned stimulus
Minimum competency tests
47. Right = doing your duty - showing respect for authority - and maintaining social order for its own sake.
Refers to a condition that a person has.
Stage 4: Law and Order Orientation
Naturalist Intelligence
Small-group discussion
48. Teachers required to use the same judgement/care as parents in protecting the children under their supervision.
Inattention
Gifted and Talented Act
Students at risk
In loco parentis "in the place of parents"
49. Serious/Persistent age-inappropriate behaviors resulting in social conflict - as well as problems in school and personal concept. Caused by make-up of the child - family disfunction/mistreatment - and/or underlying learning disability.
Learning Disability (LD)
Nonverbal cues
Emotional and Behavior Disorders (EBD)
Parenting styles
50. Method of improving retention by practicing new knowledge or behaviors after mastery is achieved.
Naturalist Intelligence
multimodal approach
Overlearning
Zone of proximal development