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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






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






3. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






4. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






6. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






7. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






16. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






17. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






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






20. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






22. 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






23. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






25. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






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






28. 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






29. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






31. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






33. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






34. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






40. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






41. 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.






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






43. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






44. Research + common sense






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






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






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






48. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






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