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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






3. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






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






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






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






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






8. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






10. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






12. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






13. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






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






15. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






16. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






18. Play that occurs alone.






19. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






20. Continuation (of behavior)






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






28. 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.






29. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






30. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






31. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






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






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






34. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






35. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






37. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






38. 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.






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






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






41. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






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






43. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






44. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






46. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






47. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






48. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






50. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.