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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






2. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






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






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






6. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






7. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






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






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






11. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






12. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






14. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






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






17. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






18. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






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






20. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.






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






22. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






23. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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






25. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






26. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






28. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






29. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






30. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






32. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






33. Research + common sense






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






35. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






37. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






38. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






40. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






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






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






43. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






44. 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






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






46. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






47. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






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






50. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.