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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






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






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






4. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






5. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






7. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






8. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






15. Continuation (of behavior)






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






17. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






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






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






20. 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.






21. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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






23. 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.






24. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






25. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






27. Perception of and response to different stimuli






28. Play that occurs alone.






29. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






30. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






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






32. The study of learning and teaching.






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






34. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






36. The use of pleasant or unpleasant consequences to control the occurrence of behavior. (Skinner)






37. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. Selection by chance into different treatment groups; intended to ensure equivalence of the groups.






44. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






45. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






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






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