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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






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






5. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






6. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






8. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






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






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






11. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






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






13. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






14. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






16. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






18. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






19. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






22. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






23. 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.






24. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






25. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






26. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






37. Socially approved behavior associated with one gender as opposed to the other.






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






44. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






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






46. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






48. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






49. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






50. 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