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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Support for learning and problem solving; might include clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






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






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






4. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






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






7. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.






8. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






9. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






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






11. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






12. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information






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






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






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






16. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






18. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






20. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






21. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






23. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






24. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Dual language models teach all students in both English and another language.






32. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






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






34. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






36. Play that occurs alone.






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






38. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






45. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






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






47. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






48. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






49. Learning of a list of items in any order.






50. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation