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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






3. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






4. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






5. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






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 The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






8. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






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






10. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






11. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






12. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






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






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






15. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






18. 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






19. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






20. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






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






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






24. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






25. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






27. 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.






28. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






29. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






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






31. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






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






34. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






35. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






36. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






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






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






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






42. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






44. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






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






46. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






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






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






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






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