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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






3. 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)






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






12. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






13. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






14. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






15. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






16. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






17. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






18. The study of learning and teaching.






19. 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






20. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






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






23. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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






27. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






29. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






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






31. 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






32. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






35. 5 to 9 pieces of information






36. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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






38. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






39. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






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






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






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






44. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






45. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






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






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






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






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