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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






3. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






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






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






9. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






10. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






12. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






22. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






23. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






25. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






27. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






28. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






30. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






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






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






36. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






37. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






39. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






41. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






42. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






44. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






46. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






47. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






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






49. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






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