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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






4. The study of learning and teaching.






5. 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.






6. Learning of a list of items in any order.






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






11. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






12. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






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






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






17. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






19. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






22. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






23. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






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






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






27. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






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






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






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






31. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






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






33. 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)






34. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






35. Perception of and response to different stimuli






36. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






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






38. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






40. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






41. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






42. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






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







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