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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






2. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






3. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






4. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






6. The study of learning and teaching.






7. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






8. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






9. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






10. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






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






12. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






14. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






15. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






16. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






17. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






18. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






19. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






20. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






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






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






23. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






24. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






26. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






27. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






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






29. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






30. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






31. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






32. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






33. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






34. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






35. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






36. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






37. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






38. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






39. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






40. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






41. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






42. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






43. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






44. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






45. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.






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






47. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






48. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






49. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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