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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






2. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






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






12. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






13. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






14. Research + common sense






15. 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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






20. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. Perception of and response to different stimuli






27. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






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






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






31. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






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






34. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






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






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






38. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






39. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






40. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






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






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






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






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






46. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






47. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






48. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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