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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






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






4. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






5. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






6. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






7. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






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






9. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






10. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






12. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






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






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






16. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






17. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






18. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






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






20. 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)






21. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






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






24. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






31. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






32. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






34. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






35. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






36. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






38. Research + common sense






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






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






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






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






43. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






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






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






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






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






49. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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