Test your basic knowledge |

Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Learning of a list of items in any order.






2. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






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






6. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






7. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






9. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






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






12. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






13. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






14. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






16. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






18. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






20. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






21. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






22. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






23. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






26. 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.






27. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






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






30. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






31. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






33. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






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






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






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






37. 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)






38. Continuation (of behavior)






39. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






40. Learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented - the other can be recalled.






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






42. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






43. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






44. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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






46. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






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






50. Mental visualization of images to improve memory