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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






2. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






4. 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)






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






6. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






7. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






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






9. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






11. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






12. 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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13. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






14. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






15. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






17. 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.






18. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






21. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






24. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






25. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






26. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






27. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






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






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






30. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






31. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






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






39. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






41. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






42. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






45. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule