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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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1. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






2. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






3. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






6. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






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






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






9. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






11. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






12. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






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






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






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






17. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






18. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






19. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






20. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






21. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






22. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






23. 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)






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






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






26. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






27. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






29. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






31. A person's interpretation of stimuli






32. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






33. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






34. Research + common sense






35. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






37. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






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






41. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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






43. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






44. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






45. 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.






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






48. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






49. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






50. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.