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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






4. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






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






7. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






9. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






10. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






11. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






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






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






15. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






16. 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.






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






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






19. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






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






22. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






23. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






24. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






25. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






28. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






29. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






31. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






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






34. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






35. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






36. 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






37. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






40. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






41. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






42. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






43. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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)






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






50. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.