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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






2. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






3. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






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






7. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






9. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






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






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






13. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






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






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






17. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






18. Learning of a list of items in any order.






19. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






20. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






21. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






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






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






24. Play that occurs alone.






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






26. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






28. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






29. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






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






32. A thinking skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises that are designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






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






34. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






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






38. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






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






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






42. Research + common sense






43. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






44. The study of learning and teaching.






45. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






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






47. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






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






50. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)