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






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






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






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






6. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






7. 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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8. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






10. A person's interpretation of stimuli






11. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






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






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






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






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






16. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






17. Research + common sense






18. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






22. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






26. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






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






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






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






31. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






32. 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)






33. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






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






35. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






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






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






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






39. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






40. 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.






41. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






42. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






43. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






44. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






46. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






47. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






48. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






49. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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