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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






2. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






3. 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)






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






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






6. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






16. 5 to 9 pieces of information






17. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






18. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






19. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






20. 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.






21. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






22. 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.






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






24. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






26. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






27. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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






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






30. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






33. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






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






36. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






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






39. 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.






40. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






49. 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.






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






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