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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






2. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






3. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






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






6. 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.






7. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






8. Play that occurs alone.






9. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






10. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






11. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






14. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






22. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






23. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






25. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






34. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






35. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






36. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






38. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






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






40. 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






41. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






44. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






45. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






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






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






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






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






50. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.