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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






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






4. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






6. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






7. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






14. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






15. 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)






16. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






17. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






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






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






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






21. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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






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






24. 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.






25. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






26. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






29. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






33. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






35. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






38. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






44. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






46. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






47. 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.






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






49. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






50. Events that precede behaviors






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