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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. Play that occurs alone.






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






4. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






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






7. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






8. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






9. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






10. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






12. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






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






15. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






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






17. Continuation (of behavior)






18. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






19. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






21. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






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






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






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






26. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






27. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






29. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






31. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






32. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






34. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






35. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






36. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






37. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






38. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






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






40. 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)






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






42. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






43. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






45. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






46. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






47. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






49. 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






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