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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






2. Events that precede behaviors






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






8. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






9. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






11. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






13. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






14. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






15. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






16. 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






17. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






18. 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.






19. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






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






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






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






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






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






25. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






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






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






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






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






31. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






38. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






39. Continuation (of behavior)






40. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






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






44. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






46. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






47. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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






50. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.