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EDUC 255 pt.2
Final review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| extrinsic motivation | A desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment |
| learning probe | method, such as questioning, that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson |
| learning objectives | specific behaviors students are expected to exhibit at the end of of a series of lessons |
| intrinsic motivation | A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake |
| initial letter strategies | Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase. |
| intrinsic reinforcers | behaviors that a person enjoys engaging in for his or her own sake, without any other reward |
| independent practice | component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge |
| gender bias | stereotypical views and differential treatment of males and females, often favoring one gender over the other |
| metacognition | knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn (thinking about thinking) |
| mnemonics | devices or strategies for aiding the memory |
| multicultural education | education that teaches the value of cultural diversity |
| delinquent | low achievers who have given little reason to believe they can succeed by following the path laid out for them by the school. |
| bio-ecological model | Bronfenbrenner's model of development that emphasizes the roles of both nature and nurture as the developing person interacts with a series of environmental systems (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem) |
| maslow's needs theory | Physiological survival, Safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization |
| cognitive developmental stages | Age-related changes that occur in mental activities such as attending, perceiving, learning, thinking, and remembering. (piaget) |
| Erikson's 8 stages of pyschosocial developement | trust vs. mistrust , autonomy vs doubt to 3yrs, initiative vs guilt 3-6 yrs, industry vs inferiority 6-12 yrs, identity vs role confusion 12-18yrs, intimacy vs isolation young adult, generativity vs stagnation (middle adult), integrity vs despair late |
| problem solving | application of knowledge and skills to achieve certain goals |
| Microsystem consists of... | the child |
| Mesosystem consists of... | school, family, peers, neighborhood park, ect |
| Exosystem consists of ... | extended family, friends, neighbors, mass media |
| Macrosystem consists of... | broad ideology, laws, and customs of one's culture, subculture, or social class |
| sensorymotor stage | Piaget's first stage. Occurs from birth to age 2. Formation of Object Permanence |
| preoperational stage | Piaget's second stage. Occurs from age 2-7. Children learn to represent things in the mind. Think Egocentrically. |
| concrete operational stage | Piaget's third stage. Occurs ages 7-11. Kids develop capacity for logical reasoning and understand conservation, but can only use in familiar situations. |
| formal operational stage | the fourth and last of Piaget's stages. Occurs after age 11. A person can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason logically. |