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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to low levels of another.






2. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






4. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






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






8. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






10. Learning strategies that call on students to ask themselves who - what - where - and how questions as they read materials.






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






12. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






13. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






15. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






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






18. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






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






20. 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






21. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






22. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






23. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






24. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






26. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






27. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






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






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






31. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






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






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






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






35. A state of consolidation reflecting conscious - clear-cut decisions concerning occupation and ideology. (Marcia)






36. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






38. 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.






39. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






49. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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