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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






9. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






10. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






11. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






12. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






13. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






15. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






16. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






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






19. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






20. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






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






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






23. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






25. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






26. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






33. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






34. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






35. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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






38. 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.






39. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






40. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






41. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






42. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






43. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






44. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






46. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






47. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






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






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






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