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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 5 to 9 pieces of information






8. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






9. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






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






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






12. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






13. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






15. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






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






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






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






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






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






21. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






22. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






26. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






27. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






29. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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






31. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






32. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






34. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






36. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






45. Continuation (of behavior)






46. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






47. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






49. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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