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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






2. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






3. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






11. 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)






12. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






13. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






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






15. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






16. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






19. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






20. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






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






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






24. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






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






27. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






28. Research + common sense






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






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






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






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






33. 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)






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






35. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






37. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






39. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






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






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






43. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






44. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






45. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






46. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






48. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






49. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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