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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






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






3. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






4. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






5. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






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






9. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






10. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






12. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






14. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






17. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






19. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






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






21. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






22. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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






28. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






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






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






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






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






34. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






35. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






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






38. 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.






39. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






41. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






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






44. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






45. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






46. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






47. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






48. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






49. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






50. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.