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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






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






3. 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.






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






5. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






6. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






7. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






8. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






10. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






12. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






13. 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)






14. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






15. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






16. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






17. The study of learning and teaching.






18. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






19. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






20. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






21. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






22. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






24. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






25. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






27. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






28. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






29. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






30. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






31. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






32. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






33. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






34. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






35. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






37. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






38. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






39. 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.






40. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






41. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






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






44. Events that precede behaviors






45. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






46. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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






48. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






50. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record