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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. 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.






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






4. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






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






8. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






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






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






11. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






12. 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






13. Research + common sense






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






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






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






17. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






18. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






20. Continuation (of behavior)






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






22. Perception of and response to different stimuli






23. 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






24. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






25. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






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






27. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






28. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






29. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






30. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






31. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






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






33. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






34. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






35. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






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






38. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






40. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






42. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






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






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






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






47. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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






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






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