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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






2. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






5. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






8. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






9. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






11. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






12. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






13. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






14. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






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






17. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






20. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






21. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






22. Learning of a list of items in any order.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






37. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






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






40. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






42. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






44. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






46. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






47. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






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






50. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.







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