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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






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






3. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






9. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






11. 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)






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






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






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






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






16. The process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






17. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






19. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






20. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






21. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






22. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






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






24. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






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






26. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






28. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






30. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






31. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






32. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






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






35. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






36. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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






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






39. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






41. A person's interpretation of stimuli






42. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow






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






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






45. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






47. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive principles for changing one's own behavior by means of self-talk and self-instruction. (Meichenbaum)






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






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






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