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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






2. 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.






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






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






5. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






6. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






7. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.






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






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






16. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






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






18. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






19. 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.






20. Late adulthood (Erikson). people look back over their lifetime and come to the realization that one's life has been one's own responsibility. Despair occurs in those who regret the way they have led their lives.






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






22. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






23. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






25. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






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






27. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






28. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






29. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






30. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






31. Continuation (of behavior)






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






33. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






35. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






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






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






38. Increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information.






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






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






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






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






43. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






45. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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






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






50. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed