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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






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






4. The study of learning and teaching.






5. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






7. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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






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






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






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






19. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






21. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






22. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






24. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






26. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






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






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






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






30. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






31. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






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






34. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






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






37. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






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






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






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






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






43. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






44. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






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






49. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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