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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






3. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention






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






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






6. Development of motor skills such as running or throwing - which involve the limbs and large muscles. (early childhood)






7. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






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






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






12. Bandura states it has four phases: 1. attentional phase-paying attention to a model 2. retention phase-students watch the model and then practice 3. reproduction phase- try to match their behavior to the model's 4. motivational phase- student will co






13. One who believes that success or failure is the result of his or her own efforts or abilities






14. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






15. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule






16. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






17. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






18. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






19. Group that receives the treatment during an experiment.






20. Expressing clear expectations - providing clear feedback - providing immediate feedback - providing frequent feedback - increasing the value and availability of extrinsic motivators






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






22. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






30. Process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise through interaction with an expert - with an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






31. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads to automatic punishment.






32. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






33. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to reinforce participation in less enjoyable activities






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






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






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






37. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






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






40. 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






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






42. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






44. 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.






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






46. Designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






48. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in their own interests.






49. The expectation - based on experience - that one's actions will ultimately lead to failure.






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