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






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






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






5. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






6. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






7. The study of learning and teaching.






8. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






9. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






10. 5 to 9 pieces of information






11. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






12. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






13. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






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






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






17. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






18. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






25. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






26. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






27. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






28. 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.






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






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






31. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






32. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






34. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






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






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






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






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






39. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






41. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






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






44. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






45. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






47. 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.






48. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






50. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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