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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Perception of and response to different stimuli






8. Research + common sense






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






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






11. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






13. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






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






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






16. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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






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






20. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






22. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






23. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






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






26. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






29. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






30. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






32. Continuation (of behavior)






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






34. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






35. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






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






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






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






39. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






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






42. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






43. Play that occurs alone.






44. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






45. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






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






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






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






50. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule