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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






3. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






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






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






7. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






9. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






10. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






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






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






15. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






16. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






17. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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. 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.






25. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






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






27. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






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






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






30. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






31. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






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






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






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






35. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






36. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






37. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






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






40. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






41. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






43. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






45. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






46. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






47. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






48. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






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






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