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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






11. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






12. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






14. 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.






15. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






16. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






19. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






20. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






21. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






22. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






23. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






24. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






26. Research + common sense






27. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






29. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






30. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






31. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






32. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






33. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






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






35. Events that precede behaviors






36. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






37. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






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






40. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






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






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






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






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






46. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






47. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






49. 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.






50. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si