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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






9. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






10. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






11. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






12. Continuation (of behavior)






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






14. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






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






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






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






20. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






21. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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)






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






32. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






34. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






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






38. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






40. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






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






43. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






44. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






45. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






46. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






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






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






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