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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






2. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






3. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






5. 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)






6. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






7. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






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






10. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






11. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






12. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






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






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






15. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






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






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






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






32. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






33. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






34. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






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






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






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






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






39. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






40. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






41. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






44. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






45. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






47. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






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