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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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






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






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






5. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






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






8. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






9. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






10. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






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






14. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






17. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






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






19. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






20. Perception of and response to different stimuli






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






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






23. Continuation (of behavior)






24. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






26. 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






27. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






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






30. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






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






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






34. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






35. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






36. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






37. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






38. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






39. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






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






42. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






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






44. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






45. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






46. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






47. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






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






50. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them