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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






3. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






4. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






5. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






7. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






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






9. 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.






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






11. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






12. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






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






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






16. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






18. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






20. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






21. 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.






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






23. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






26. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






28. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






29. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






30. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






31. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






32. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






35. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






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






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






39. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






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






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






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






45. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






46. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






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