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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






2. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






3. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






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






5. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






6. 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.






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






8. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






10. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






12. Continuation (of behavior)






13. The study of learning and teaching.






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






15. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






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






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






19. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






31. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






32. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






33. Play that occurs alone.






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






35. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






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






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






38. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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






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






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






42. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






43. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






44. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






45. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






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






47. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






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






50. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)







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