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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






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






4. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






5. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






6. Research + common sense






7. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






8. 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






9. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






12. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






13. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






15. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






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






17. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






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






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






20. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






21. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






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






24. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






26. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






27. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






34. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






35. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






37. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






38. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






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






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






43. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






44. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






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






46. A person's interpretation of stimuli






47. 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.






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






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






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