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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






2. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






4. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






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






6. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






7. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






8. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






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






10. Continuation (of behavior)






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






12. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






14. Research + common sense






15. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






16. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






17. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






18. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






27. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






33. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






34. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






35. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






38. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






39. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






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






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






48. Play that occurs alone.






49. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






50. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.