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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






2. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






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






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






13. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






14. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






16. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






17. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






18. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






26. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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






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






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






30. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






37. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






38. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






39. Perception of and response to different stimuli






40. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






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






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






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






46. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






47. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






48. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






50. The study of learning and teaching.







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