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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






12. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






13. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






14. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






15. 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)






16. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






17. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






18. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






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






21. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






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






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






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






25. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






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






28. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






29. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






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






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






33. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






34. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






36. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






37. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






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






47. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






48. 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.






49. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






50. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.