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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






2. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






3. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






4. 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.






5. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






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






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






8. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






9. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






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






11. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met as identified by Maslow






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Stimuli that have no effect on a particular response.






22. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






30. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






38. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






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






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






41. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






43. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






44. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






45. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






46. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






49. Students begin with complex problems to solve and then work out or discover (with the teacher's guidance) the basic skills required.






50. Actions that show respect and caring for others.