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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. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






4. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






5. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






6. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






7. 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.






8. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






14. 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






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






16. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






20. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






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






22. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






24. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






25. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






26. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






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






29. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






30. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






32. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






34. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






36. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






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






38. 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)






39. 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)






40. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






41. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






42. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






43. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






45. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






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






48. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






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