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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






6. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






8. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






9. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






10. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






12. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






13. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






14. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






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






17. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






19. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






20. 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






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






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






23. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






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






32. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






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






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






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






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






37. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






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






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






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






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






43. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






44. 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)






45. A person's interpretation of stimuli






46. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






48. Research + common sense






49. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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