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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






3. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






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






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






6. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






7. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






9. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






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






18. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






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






20. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






21. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






22. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






23. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






24. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






26. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






27. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






28. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






29. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






30. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






34. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






35. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






36. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






37. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






38. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






40. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






41. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






42. Continuation (of behavior)






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






44. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






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






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






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






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






50. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.







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