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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






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






3. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






4. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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






6. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






7. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






9. 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






10. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






11. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






13. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






14. 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.






15. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






16. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






18. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






29. The study of learning and teaching.






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






31. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






33. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






34. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






35. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






36. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






37. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






39. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






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






41. 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)






42. 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.






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






44. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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