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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






3. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






13. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






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






15. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






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






17. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






18. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






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






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






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






24. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






25. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






26. 5 to 9 pieces of information






27. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






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






30. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






32. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






33. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






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






36. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






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






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






40. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






43. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






44. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






45. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






48. 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)






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






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