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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






3. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.






4. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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






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






8. Continuation (of behavior)






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






10. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






12. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






13. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






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






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






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






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






18. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






20. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






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






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






24. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






31. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






32. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






33. Learning of a list of items in any order.






34. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






36. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






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






39. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






41. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






43. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






45. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






47. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






48. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






50. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.







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