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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






2. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






3. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






5. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






6. 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.






7. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






9. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






11. 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)






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






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






16. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






17. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






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






19. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






20. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






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






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






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






25. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






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






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






29. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






32. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






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






34. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






36. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






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






39. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






40. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






41. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






42. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






43. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






45. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






48. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






49. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






50. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)







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