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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






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






3. 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






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






5. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






6. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






7. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






8. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






9. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






11. Continuation (of behavior)






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






13. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






14. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






15. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






17. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






18. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






19. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






20. 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.






21. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






22. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






23. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






25. Play that occurs alone.






26. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






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






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






31. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






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






35. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






36. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






37. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






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






40. The study of learning and teaching.






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






42. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






44. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






45. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






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






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






49. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






50. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)