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12/01/2011

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Expert Teacher
Definition
-molds a student to the flight environment, which does not change to accomodate any individual learner
-setting conductive to learning, the cockpit
-goals and purposes of teaching are safe flight operations through certification
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Expert Teachers(subject taught)
Definition
deep knowledge, general teaching strategies are classroom management, effective teaching, and evalution.
-Curriculum Materials are appropriate for subject and skill level
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Correlation
Definition
A number that indicates borh the strength and direction of a reltionship between two events or measurements
A "positive correlation" indicates two factors increasing or decreasing together
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Principle
Definition
TO an educational psychologicist a principle is nothing more than the establishment relationship between factors
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Statistically Significant
Definition
Eventmeaning that chance is unlikely to account for the result
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microgenetic studies
Definition
These microgenetic studies intensively study cognitive processes in the midst of change as the change is actually happenning
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Longitudinal studies
Definition
Lengthy studies are longitudinal studies.
-study of many subjects over months and years
-very expensive and difficult to have approved
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Maturation
Definition
Maturation is a normal part of life start to finish. It stems from our genetically programmed biological changes
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Lateralization
Definition
An aspect of brain function with implication for cognitive development is lateralization.
-damage to the right half affects body movement on the left half
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Neurons
Definition
Neurons send messages to each other by releasing chemicals that jump across tiny spaces called synapses, between the dendrites of one neuron and the axon of others
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Schemes
Definition
Piaget called these psychological structures schemes. Basic building blocks of thinking. "organized" systems of actions of thoughts.
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Social Transmission
Definition
Social transmission involves interaction with the people around us, learning from them.
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Activity
Definition
Activiy governs physical maturation by increasing our ability to act on the environment as we learn from it
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Accomodation
Definition
Accomodation occurs when a person must changeesisting schemes to respond to a new situation. If data cannot be made to fit any existing schemes, then more appropriate structures must be developed
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Adaption
Definition
In addition to the tendency to organize their psychological structures, people also inherit the tendency to adapt to their environment by either assimilation and accomodation
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Assimilation
Definition
Assimilation takes place when people use their existing schemes to make sense of events in their world. Assimilation involves trying to understand something new by fitting it into what we already know
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Sociocultural Theory
Definition
Vygotskys says that children learn the culture of their community (ways of thinking and behaving) through these interactions
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Cultural Tools
Definition
-Vygotsksy believed that cultural tools (machines, electronics, etc.) and symbolic tools (number systems, maps, art, ect.) are important in cognitive development.
-also reasoning and problem solving are mediated by psychological tools
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Scaffolding
Definition
The scaffolding of an isntructor for a learner may be gradually reduced as the student takes guidance, perhaps first by giving the prompots as private speech and finally as inner speech.
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Pragmatics
Definition
This involves the appropriate use of language to communicate. they are also rules for when and how to use language to be an effective communicator in a particular culture.
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Syntax
Definition
We learn early to master the rules of our primary language regarding the sequence or order of word placement
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Metalinguistic Awareness
Definition
Our knowledge of our language is becoming explicit
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Psychosocial Theory
Definition
Focuses on development of the self; one search for identity, for relationship with others, and the role of culture throughout life
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Mesosystem
Definition
family, classroom, religious setting, peer group
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Macrosystem
Definition
Cultural values, Social Conditions, Economic Patterns, Political Philosophy, National Customs
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Distortions of Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Model
Definition
It is common to encounter distortions of his bioecological model
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Instrumental Aggression
Definition
Most common aggression , intends to gain an object or privledge, but not intended to harm anybody
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Hostile Aggression
Definition
Inflicting intentional harm that is intended to hurt someone else
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Overt Aggression
Definition
is a form of hostile aggression that involves physical attack.

several causes: violence in home, violence in entertainment, harsh home punishment
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Relational Aggression
Definition
a form of hostile aggression that involves verbal attacks and other actions meant to harm social relationships
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Self Concept
Definition
develops through constant self evaluation in different situations
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Self-Esteem
Definition
Since it is a reflection of how one actually performs compared to how one thinks he should be performing, self esteem fluctuates daily. an affective reaction, a judgement of self worth
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Distributive Justice
Definition
Fair allocation of resources amoung diverse members of a coummunity
-beliefs about how to divide privilidges fairly follows a sequence of development from equality to merit to benevolence
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