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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






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






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






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






6. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






8. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






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






11. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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






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






14. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






15. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






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






18. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






20. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






21. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






22. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






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






24. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






27. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






28. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






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






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






32. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






41. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






42. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






43. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






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






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






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






47. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






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






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







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