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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






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






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






6. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






9. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






10. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






12. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






20. 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






21. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






24. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






25. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






27. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






29. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






30. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






31. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






42. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






43. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






44. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






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






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






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






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






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






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