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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






3. Methods for learning - studying - or solving problems.






4. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






5. 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.






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






7. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






8. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






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






10. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






12. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






13. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






14. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






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






17. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






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






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






20. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






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






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






23. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






24. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






25. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






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






27. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions during the course of a lesson.






28. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






29. The tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily that other items.






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






31. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






32. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate and solve problems






33. 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.






34. Play in which children join together to create a common goal.






35. Play that occurs alone.






36. The study of learning and teaching.






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






38. 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.






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






40. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






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






42. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






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






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






46. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






47. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






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






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






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