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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






3. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






4. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






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






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






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






8. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






10. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






12. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






13. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






14. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






15. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






16. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






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






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






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






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






22. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






23. Continuation (of behavior)






24. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






25. 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)






26. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






32. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






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






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






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






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






37. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






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






48. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






50. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')







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