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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






4. 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)






5. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






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






7. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






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






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






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






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






12. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






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






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






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






17. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






24. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






25. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






26. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






27. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






28. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






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






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






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






33. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






34. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






35. 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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36. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






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






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






39. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






41. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






42. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






43. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






44. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






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






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






49. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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