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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






2. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






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






7. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






8. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






9. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






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






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






13. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






14. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






15. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






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






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






19. Events that precede behaviors






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






30. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






31. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






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






34. A person's interpretation of stimuli






35. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






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






37. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






38. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






39. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






40. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






42. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






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






44. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






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






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






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






48. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






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






50. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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