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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A person's interpretation of stimuli






2. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






3. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






5. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






6. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






7. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






8. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






9. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






10. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






11. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






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






13. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






14. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






16. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






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






19. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






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






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






23. 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)






24. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






25. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






26. 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






27. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






28. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






29. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






31. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






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






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






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






35. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






36. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






42. The study of learning and teaching.






43. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






44. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






45. 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.






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






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






48. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






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






50. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.