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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






2. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






5. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






7. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






8. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






9. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






10. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






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






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






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






15. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






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






19. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






20. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






22. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






25. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






27. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






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






30. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






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






32. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






33. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






34. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






35. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






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






37. 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.






38. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






39. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






40. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






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






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






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






44. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






48. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






50. Mental visualization of images to improve memory