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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






2. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






4. 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)






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






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






7. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






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






9. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






11. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






12. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






13. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






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






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






16. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






17. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






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






20. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






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






23. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






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






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






27. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






28. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






29. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






31. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






32. 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.






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






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






35. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






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






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






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






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






41. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






42. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






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






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






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






47. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






48. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






50. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.