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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






2. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






3. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






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






5. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






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






7. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






8. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






9. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






11. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






12. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






15. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






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






17. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






18. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






20. 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.






21. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






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






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






25. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






28. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






30. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






31. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






32. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






34. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






35. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






36. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






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






38. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






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






42. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Teacher's ability to attend to interruptions or behavior problems while continuing a lesson or other instructional activity.






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






49. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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