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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






2. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






3. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






4. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






5. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






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






8. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






9. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






10. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






11. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






12. Research + common sense






13. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






14. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






15. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






16. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






17. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






19. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






20. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






21. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






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






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






24. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






25. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






26. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






27. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






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






30. Perception of and response to different stimuli






31. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






32. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






33. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






34. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






35. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






36. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






37. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






38. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






39. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






40. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






41. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






42. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






44. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






45. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






46. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






48. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






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






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