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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






5. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






6. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






7. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






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






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






16. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






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






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






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






21. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






23. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






24. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. Play that occurs alone.






32. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






34. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






35. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






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






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






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






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






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






41. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






42. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






44. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






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






48. 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)






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






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