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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






2. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






3. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






5. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






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






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






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






10. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






11. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






14. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






16. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






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






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






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






20. The study of learning and teaching.






21. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






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






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






25. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






32. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






33. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






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






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






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






37. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






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






45. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






46. 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.






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






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






49. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






50. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.