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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






2. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






3. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






4. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






5. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






6. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






7. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






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






11. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






13. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






14. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






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






18. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






21. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






22. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






25. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






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






27. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






28. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






29. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






31. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






32. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






34. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






35. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






36. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






37. Events that precede behaviors






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






39. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






41. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






43. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






45. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






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






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






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






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






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