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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






3. 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






4. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






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






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






8. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






9. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






10. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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






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






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






14. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






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






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






17. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






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






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






22. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






23. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






25. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






27. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






28. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






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






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






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






33. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






35. The study of learning and teaching.






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






37. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






38. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






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






40. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






41. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






42. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






49. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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