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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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)






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






3. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






4. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






5. 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)






6. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






7. 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






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






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






10. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






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






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






15. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






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






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. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






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






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






22. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






24. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






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






27. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






28. 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






29. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






30. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






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






33. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






34. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






36. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






37. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






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






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






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






42. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






50. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.