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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 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






2. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






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






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






6. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






7. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






8. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.






9. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






10. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






11. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






12. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






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






14. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






16. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






17. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






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






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






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






21. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






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






31. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






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






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






34. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






37. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






38. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






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






42. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






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






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






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






46. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






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






48. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






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