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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






4. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






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






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






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






8. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






9. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






10. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






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






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






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






14. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






15. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






16. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






18. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






20. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






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






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






23. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






24. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






25. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






26. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






27. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






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






29. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






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






32. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






33. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






34. Continuation (of behavior)






35. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






37. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






40. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






49. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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