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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






2. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






3. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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






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






7. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






8. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






9. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






10. 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






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






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






13. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






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






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






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






18. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






19. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






20. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






21. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






22. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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






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






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






27. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






29. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






30. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






32. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






34. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






35. Learning of a list of items in any order.






36. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






38. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






40. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






41. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






42. Perception of and response to different stimuli






43. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






44. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






45. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






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






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






49. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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