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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






4. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






11. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






12. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






20. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






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






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






24. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






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






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






28. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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






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






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






32. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






35. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






36. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






37. 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)






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






39. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






41. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






43. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






46. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






47. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






48. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






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