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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






2. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






6. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






7. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






8. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






10. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






11. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






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






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






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






15. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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)






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






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






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






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






30. One who believes that other factors - such as luck - task difficulty - and other people's actions - cause success or failure






31. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






32. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






33. The study of learning and teaching.






34. 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.






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






36. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






37. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






38. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






39. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






47. Play that occurs alone.






48. 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






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






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