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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






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






3. 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)






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






5. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






7. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






8. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






9. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






10. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






12. 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.






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






14. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






15. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






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






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






19. The study of learning and teaching.






20. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






21. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






22. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






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






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






26. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






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






28. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






30. 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)






31. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






32. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






34. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






35. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






36. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






37. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






38. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






40. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






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






42. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






43. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.