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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






5. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






6. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






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






10. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






12. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






13. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






14. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






15. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






16. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






26. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






28. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






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






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






38. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






39. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






40. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






41. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






43. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






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






47. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






48. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






50. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg







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