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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






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






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






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






6. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






7. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






8. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






16. 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.






17. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






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






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






20. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






21. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






23. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






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






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






27. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






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






29. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






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






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






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






33. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






36. 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.






37. A strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






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






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






40. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






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






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






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






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






45. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






47. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






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






49. 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.






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