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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






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






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






15. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






16. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






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






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






21. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






22. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






23. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






25. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






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






27. Events that precede behaviors






28. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






29. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






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






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






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






34. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






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






36. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






38. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






39. The study of learning and teaching.






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






41. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






42. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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