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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






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






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






4. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






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






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






7. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






9. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






11. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






13. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






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






16. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






19. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






21. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






22. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






23. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






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






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






34. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






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






36. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






48. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






49. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






50. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.







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