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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






3. 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


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






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






6. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






7. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






9. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






10. 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.






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






12. Perception of and response to different stimuli






13. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






15. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






18. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






19. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






20. Events that precede behaviors






21. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






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






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






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






26. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






28. 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






29. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






30. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






31. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






33. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






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






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






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






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






39. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






40. 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






41. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






42. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






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






45. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






46. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






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






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






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