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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






3. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






4. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






5. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






6. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






8. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






19. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






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






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






22. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






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






24. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






25. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






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






28. 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.






29. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






30. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






31. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






32. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






33. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






34. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






35. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






36. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






38. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






39. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






40. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






42. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






43. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






44. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






45. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






46. 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.






47. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






49. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






50. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge