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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






3. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






4. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






6. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






14. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






15. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






17. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






19. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Research + common sense






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






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






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






31. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






32. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






33. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






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






35. 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






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






37. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






38. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






39. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement. Also called mastery goals






40. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






41. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






43. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






44. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






46. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






47. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






49. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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