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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






5. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






7. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






9. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






10. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






11. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






13. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






15. 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)






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






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






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






19. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






20. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






21. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






23. Events that precede behaviors






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






30. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






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






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






33. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






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






35. The study of learning and teaching.






36. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






39. Research + common sense






40. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






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






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






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






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






46. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






47. 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






48. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






49. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






50. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group