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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






3. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






5. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






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






9. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






11. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






13. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






14. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






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






16. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






17. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






18. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






19. 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.






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






21. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






30. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






32. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






33. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






34. 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.






35. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






36. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






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






47. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






49. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






50. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes