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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






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






3. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






4. Success bring with it a sense of industry - a good feeling about oneself and one's abilities. 6 to 12 years (Erikson)






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






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






7. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






8. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable number of behaviors.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. Programs designed to prevent or remediate learning problems among students from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






15. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






22. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






23. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






25. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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






28. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






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






31. A method - such as questioning - that helps teachers find out whether students understand a lesson.






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






39. Young adulthood (Erikson) Learning how to share their life with another.






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






41. Children are taught reading or other subjects in both their native language and English






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






43. Research + common sense






44. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






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






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






47. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their senses and motor skills. (Piaget: birth to 2 years)






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






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






50. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage (Piaget) of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects and about relationships among its subordinate classes.