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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






2. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






3. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






6. Continuation (of behavior)






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






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






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






10. 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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11. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






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






14. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






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






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






17. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






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






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






21. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






23. 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.






24. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






25. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






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






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






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






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






31. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






33. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






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






36. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






45. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






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






49. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






50. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.