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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






10. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






20. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






23. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






25. The study of learning and teaching.






26. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






29. A person's interpretation of stimuli






30. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






32. Play that occurs alone.






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






34. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






48. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






49. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






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