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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






2. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






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






6. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






7. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






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






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






10. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






18. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






24. 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






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






26. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






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






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






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






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






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






32. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






34. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






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






36. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






37. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






38. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






39. 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)






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






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






42. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






43. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






45. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






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






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






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






50. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






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