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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






4. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






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






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






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






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






9. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






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






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






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






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






14. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






15. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






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






19. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






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






21. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






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






23. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






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






26. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






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






28. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






30. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






31. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






35. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






36. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






39. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






42. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






43. 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.






44. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






45. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






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






48. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






49. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






50. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)