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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






2. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






4. Play that occurs alone.






5. Learning of a list of items in any order.






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






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






8. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






9. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






11. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






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






13. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






14. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






16. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






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






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






19. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






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






22. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






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






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






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






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






27. 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)






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






29. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






30. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






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






33. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






34. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






36. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






37. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






38. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






39. The study of learning and teaching.






40. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






42. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






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






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






45. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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






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






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






50. Events that precede behaviors