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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






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






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






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






6. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






7. Continuation (of behavior)






8. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






11. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






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






14. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






16. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






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






18. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






19. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






21. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






23. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






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






26. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






27. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






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






30. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






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






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






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






35. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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






37. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






38. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






39. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






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






42. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






43. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






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 person's interpretation of stimuli






46. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






47. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






49. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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