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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






2. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






4. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






5. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






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






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






8. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






9. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






10. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






11. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






19. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






20. Events that precede behaviors






21. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






22. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






23. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






25. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






26. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






28. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






29. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






31. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






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






34. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






36. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






37. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






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






41. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






42. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






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






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






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






47. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






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






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






50. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective