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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






2. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






3. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






6. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






7. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






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






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






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






13. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






14. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






15. 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.






16. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






26. Continuation (of behavior)






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






28. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






29. Experimentation with occupational and ideological choices without definite commitment. (Marcia)






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






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






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






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






34. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






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






36. 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)






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






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






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






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






41. The study of learning and teaching.






42. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






44. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






45. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






46. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






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






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






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






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