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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






2. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






4. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






7. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






8. Research + common sense






9. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






10. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






12. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






13. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






14. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






15. 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.






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






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






18. Learning of a list of items in any order.






19. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






20. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






21. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






22. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






24. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






26. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






27. Perception of and response to different stimuli






28. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






29. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






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






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






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






34. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






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






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






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






39. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






40. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






42. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






45. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






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






47. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






48. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






49. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






50. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.