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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






4. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






5. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






8. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






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






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






12. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






14. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






15. Learning of a list of items in any order.






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






17. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






18. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






20. 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.






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






22. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






24. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






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






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






28. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






29. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






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






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






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






34. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






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






36. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






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






39. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






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






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






42. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






44. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






45. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






46. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






47. 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)






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






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






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