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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






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






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






4. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






5. The study of learning and teaching.






6. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






7. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






8. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






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






10. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






11. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






12. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






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






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






15. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






16. 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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17. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






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






20. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






21. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






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






24. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






25. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






26. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






27. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






28. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






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






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






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






32. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






36. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






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






38. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






39. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






40. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






41. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






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






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






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






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






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






47. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






49. Perception of and response to different stimuli






50. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)