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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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






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






6. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






7. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






8. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






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






10. Learning of a list of items in any order.






11. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






12. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






15. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






16. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






19. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






20. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






21. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






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






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






25. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






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






28. 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






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






30. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






31. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






32. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






33. 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






34. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






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






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






38. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






39. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






40. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






41. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






43. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






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






46. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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






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