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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






4. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






5. 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.






6. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






8. Play that occurs alone.






9. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






10. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






11. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






12. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






14. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






16. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






17. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






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






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






20. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






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






23. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






24. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






25. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






26. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






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






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






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






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






31. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






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






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






34. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






35. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






36. 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.






37. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






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






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






40. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






42. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






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






44. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






45. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






48. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






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






50. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.







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