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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






2. A person's interpretation of stimuli






3. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






5. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






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






7. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






9. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






10. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






11. 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)






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






13. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






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






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






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






31. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






33. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






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






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






36. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






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






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






40. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






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






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






46. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






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






49. Play that occurs alone.






50. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.