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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






4. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






7. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






8. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






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






11. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






12. 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.






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






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






15. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






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






18. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






19. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






20. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






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






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






25. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






26. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






27. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






29. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






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






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






33. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






34. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






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






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






38. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






42. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






44. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






45. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






49. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






50. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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