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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






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






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






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






5. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






7. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






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






9. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






11. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






21. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






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






24. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






25. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






26. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






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






28. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






29. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






31. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






34. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






35. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






36. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






37. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






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






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






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






41. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






42. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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






44. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






45. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






46. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






47. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






48. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






49. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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