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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






2. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






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






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






6. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






7. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






8. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






10. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






11. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






13. 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)






14. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






15. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






16. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






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






19. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






21. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






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






23. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






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






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






28. Research + common sense






29. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






31. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






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






33. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






34. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






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






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






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






38. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






39. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






40. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






43. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






44. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






45. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






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






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






49. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






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







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