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Educational Psychology Final
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/04/2011

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Bottom-up Model
Definition
Reading is a letter-by-letter, word-by-word process in which readers translate print into speech and the reader is passive.
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Top-down Model
Definition
Reader engages background knowledge in order to understand test, readers guess in order to get through phonology.
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Interactive Model
Definition
reading is not a letter-by-letter or word-by-word process, readers can either be inactive or active it depends on the readers background.
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Cognitive Apprenticeship
Definition
This type of student-teacher relationship is characterized by methods that enculturate students into authentic practices through activity and social interaction.
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Teachers Self-efficacy
Definition
How confident a person feels about performing a task. Teachers self-efficacy depends greatly on students success.
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Advanced Organizers
Definition
Type 1: comparative organizers, activate already existing schemas.
Type 2: Expository organizers, provide new knowledge that the students will need to understand the upcoming information.
Type 3: Advanced organizers, present contents in terms of similarities and differences using specific examples (venn diagram) relate content back to the organizer.
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Under generalization
Definition
Is a mistake made when the concept formed excludes some exemplars because it isn't broad enough. including less examples
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Overgeneralization
Definition
when you include more examples that should not be included in the concept.
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Enculturation
Definition
is learned through communication in the form of speech, words, and gestures. The six things of culture that are learned are: technological, economic, political, interactive, ideological and world view.
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Intrinsic motivation
Definition
Internal: for the sake of learning
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Extrinsic motivation
Definition
External: for some reward
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Internal locus of control
Definition
Individual believes that his/her behavior is guided by personal decisions and efforts. Attribution Theory.
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External locus of control
Definition
Individual believes that his/her behavior is guided by fate, luck, or other external circumstances. Attribution Theory.
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Stable/Unstable
Definition
events are caused by a factor that does not change over time.
events are caused by a factor that is temporary, and will change.
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Global/Specific
Definition
events are caused by a factor that pervades all types of
events are caused by a factor that is specific to this one event/ circumstance.
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Learned helplessness
Definition
a mental condition in which one becomes unable to help oneself due to previous failed attempts at controlling one's life.
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Mastery and performance goal orientation
Definition
goal is an outside thing being earned.
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Fixation and saccades in reading
Definition
reading, your eye either jumps around or fixates on a certain thing
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Symbolic
Definition
This type of mental representation is illustrated by relying on a chemical formula to determine the byproducts of a chemical
reaction.
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Social constructivism
Definition
This type of constructivism deals with the generation of meaning by way of engaging in activities and communication with
other people.
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Vicarious punishment
Definition
Refraining from certain behaviors because you have seen others get punished for those same behaviors
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