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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






2. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






4. 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.






5. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






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






7. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






8. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






9. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






11. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






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






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






14. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






15. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






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






18. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






21. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






22. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






23. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






25. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






26. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






27. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






28. 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.






29. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






30. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






32. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






33. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






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






37. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






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






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






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






41. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






43. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






44. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






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






46. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






47. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






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