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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






2. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






4. Continuation (of behavior)






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






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






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






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






9. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






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






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






12. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






13. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






14. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






15. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






16. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






17. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






20. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






22. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






24. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






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






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






28. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






29. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






30. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






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






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






34. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need


35. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






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






38. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






40. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






41. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






42. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






44. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






45. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






46. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






47. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






48. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






50. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).