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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Events that precede behaviors






2. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






3. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






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






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






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






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






8. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






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






10. Research + common sense






11. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






14. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






15. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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


23. 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.






24. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






25. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






26. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






34. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






36. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






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






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






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






40. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






43. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






44. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






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






47. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






49. 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)






50. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.