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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Perception of and response to different stimuli






2. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






3. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






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






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






7. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






8. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






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






11. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






14. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






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






17. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






18. Research + common sense






19. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






21. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






23. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






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






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






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






27. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






28. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






30. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






32. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






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






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






36. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






37. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






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






39. 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.






40. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






41. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






47. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






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






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






50. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.