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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






2. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






4. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






5. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






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






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






8. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






9. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






10. 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






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






12. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






13. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






14. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






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






17. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






19. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






20. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






21. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






22. 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.






23. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






24. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






25. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






27. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






28. 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.






29. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






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






31. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






34. 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)






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






36. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






37. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






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






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






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






42. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






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






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






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






46. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






47. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






48. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






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