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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






3. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






4. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






5. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






6. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






8. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






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






11. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






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






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






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






24. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






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






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






27. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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. 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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30. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






32. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






35. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






36. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






37. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






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






40. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






41. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






42. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






43. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






44. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






45. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






46. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






47. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






48. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






49. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






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