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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






2. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






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






4. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






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






8. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






9. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






12. Events that precede behaviors






13. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






14. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






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






17. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






18. 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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19. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






20. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






21. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






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






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






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






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






27. Perception of and response to different stimuli






28. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






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






31. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






32. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






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 person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






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






38. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






39. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






40. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






41. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






42. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






44. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






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






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






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






49. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






50. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).