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Educational Psychology Vocab

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1. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






2. The study of learning and teaching.






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






4. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






5. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






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






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






9. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






10. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






11. Learning of a list of items in any order.






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






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






14. 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)






15. 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.






16. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






19. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






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






23. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






24. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






26. 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






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






28. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






30. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






31. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






32. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






33. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






34. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






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






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






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






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






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






40. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






42. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






44. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






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






46. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






47. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






48. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






49. 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.






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







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