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Educational Psychology Vocab

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






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






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






4. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






5. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






6. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






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






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






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






10. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






12. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






14. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






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






17. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






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






20. Events that precede behaviors






21. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






22. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






24. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






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






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






28. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






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






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






31. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






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






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






36. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






37. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






38. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






40. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






41. Play that occurs alone.






42. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






43. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






44. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






45. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






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






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






49. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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