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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






2. 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






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






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






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






6. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






7. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






8. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






9. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






10. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






11. 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.






12. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






19. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






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






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






23. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






25. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






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






28. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






29. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






30. Research + common sense






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






32. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






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






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






36. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






37. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






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






39. 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.






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






41. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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






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






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






45. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






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






47. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






48. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






50. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.