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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






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






3. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






5. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






7. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






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






10. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






12. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






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






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






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






16. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






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






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






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






20. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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






22. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






24. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






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






26. 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.






27. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






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






30. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






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






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






33. 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.






34. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






35. 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






36. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






37. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






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






47. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






48. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






50. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples