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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






3. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






4. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






5. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






7. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






9. A person's interpretation of stimuli






10. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






12. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






13. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






16. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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






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






19. Perception of and response to different stimuli






20. Research + common sense






21. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






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






23. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






24. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






26. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






27. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






29. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






30. 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






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






32. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






33. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






34. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






36. 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.






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






38. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






39. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






40. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






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






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






45. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






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






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






48. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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