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






2. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






3. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






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






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






6. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






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






8. 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)






9. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






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






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






14. Continuation (of behavior)






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct - predictable stages governed by inborn factors.






27. An apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






28. 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.






29. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






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






31. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






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






33. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






40. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






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






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






43. The study of learning and teaching.






44. A strategy for memorization in which images are used to link list of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






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






46. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






47. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






49. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests