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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






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






3. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






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






14. Children at this stage have the dual desire to hold on and to let go. Overly restrictive and harsh parents can give children a sense of powerlessness and doubt in their abilities. 18 months to 3 years (Erikson)






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






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






17. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






18. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






19. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






21. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






22. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






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






24. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language






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






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






27. According to Erikson - the set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through each of the eight life stages.






28. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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






30. A person's perception of his or her own strengths - weaknesses - abilities - attitudes - and values.






31. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






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






34. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






35. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






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






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






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






41. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






42. 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.






43. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






44. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






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






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






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






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






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






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