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






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






4. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






5. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






6. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






7. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






8. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






16. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






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






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






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






22. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






25. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






26. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






27. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






28. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






29. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






30. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






33. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






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






35. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






37. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






38. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






45. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






46. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






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






48. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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