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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






2. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






5. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






6. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






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






10. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






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






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






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






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






16. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






26. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






28. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






31. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






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






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






35. 5 to 9 pieces of information






36. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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37. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






39. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






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






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






43. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






44. 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.






45. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






47. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






48. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






49. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






50. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information