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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






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






3. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






11. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






12. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






13. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






14. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






15. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






16. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






17. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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






19. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






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






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






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






24. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






26. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






27. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






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






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






33. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






34. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






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






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






38. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






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






40. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






41. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






42. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






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






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






47. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






49. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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







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