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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






2. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






3. The study of learning and teaching.






4. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






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






6. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






7. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






8. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






9. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






10. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






11. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






21. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






22. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






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






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






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






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






27. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






30. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






32. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






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






35. 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.






36. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






37. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






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






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






41. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






42. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






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






45. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






46. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






47. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






48. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






49. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






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