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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






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






3. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






4. A skill learning during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






5. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






6. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






8. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






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






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






12. Relationship in which high levels of one variable correspond to high levels of another.






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






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






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






16. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






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






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






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






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






22. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






23. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






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






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






27. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






28. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






30. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






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






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






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






35. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






36. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process. Also called instruction.






37. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






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






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






40. Measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






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






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






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






44. The study of learning and teaching.






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






46. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






47. 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






48. 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.






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






50. Mental visualization of images to improve memory