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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them






2. Explanation of the relationship between factors - such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






3. Explanations of learning that emphasize observable changes in behavior.






4. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






5. Representing the main points of material in a hierarchical format.






6. Teaching techniques that facilitate the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class groups.






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






8. Unpleasant consequences used to weaken behavior.






9. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






10. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






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






13. Instruction in the background skills and knowledge that prepare children for formal teaching later.






14. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of ALL students






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






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






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






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






19. Play that occurs alone.






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






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






22. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






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






25. Research + common sense






26. Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment. Researchers can create special treatments and analyze their effects.






27. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






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






29. Development of dexterity of the fine muscles of the hand. (early childhood)






30. Events that precede behaviors






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






32. Do not assign independent practice until you are sure students can do it - keep independent practice assignments short - give clear instructions - get students started and then avoid interruptions - monitor independent work - collects independent wor






33. Theory stating that information is stored in long-term memory in schemata (networks of connected facts and concepts) - which provide a structure for making sense of new information.






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






35. The component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






36. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






43. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson