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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






7. 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.






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






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






10. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






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






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






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






14. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






15. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






17. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






19. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






20. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






21. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






22. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






23. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






26. 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


27. 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






28. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






32. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






33. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






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






40. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






43. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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