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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






4. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






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






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






8. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






9. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






10. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






12. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






13. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






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






15. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






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






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






20. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






21. 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.






22. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






23. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






32. 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)






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






34. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






35. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






37. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






38. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






39. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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