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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






3. 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)






4. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






5. 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.






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






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






8. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






10. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






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






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






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






15. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






16. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






19. A change in an individual that results from experience.






20. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






21. 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.






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






23. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






24. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






26. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






28. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






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






32. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






34. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






35. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






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






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






39. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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






41. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






42. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






43. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






44. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






45. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






46. 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






47. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






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






49. 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.






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