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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Arousing interest - maintaining curiosity - interesting presentation modes - and helping students set their own goals






2. Behavior modification strategies in which a student's school behavior is reported to parents - who supply rewards.






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






4. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






5. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






6. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






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






9. The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students.






10. Mental visualization of images to improve memory






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






12. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






15. The goal of infancy is to develop a basic trust in the world. Birth to 18 months (Erikson)






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






17. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






40. A system of accommodating student differences by diving a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subject areas.






41. A critical goal of multicultural education; involves development of positive relationships and tolerant attitudes among students of different backgrounds.






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






43. Stage at which children learn to represent things in the mind. (Piaget: ages 2-7)






44. Increased ability to learn new information based on the presence of previously acquired information.






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






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






47. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






48. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






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






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