Test your basic knowledge |

Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






2. Perception of and response to different stimuli






3. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






4. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






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






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






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






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






10. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






11. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






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






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






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






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






17. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






25. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






26. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






27. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






28. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






29. Method of giving clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior (Canter and Canter)...uses broken record






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






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






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






33. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






34. 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)






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






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






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






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






39. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






41. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






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






45. Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.






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






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






48. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






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