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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






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






4. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






5. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






7. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






8. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






10. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






12. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






13. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






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






17. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






18. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






19. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






21. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






23. Continuation (of behavior)






24. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






25. 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.






26. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






27. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






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






31. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






32. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






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






34. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






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






37. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






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






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






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






42. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






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






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






45. 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)






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






47. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






50. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson