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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






2. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






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






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






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






7. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






8. 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






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






10. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






11. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






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






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






14. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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






16. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






17. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






18. 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.






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






20. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






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






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






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






24. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






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






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






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






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






30. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






32. 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.






33. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






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






35. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






36. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






39. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






42. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






44. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






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






47. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






48. 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)






49. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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