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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






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






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






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






12. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






13. 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)






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






15. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






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






19. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






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. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






24. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






25. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






26. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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






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






29. 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.






30. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






31. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






32. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






34. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






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






37. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






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






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






43. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






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






47. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






48. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






49. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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