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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






2. 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.






3. A theory of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






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






5. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






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






7. A previously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.






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






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






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






11. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.






12. 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)






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






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






15. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






16. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






17. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






18. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






20. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to a real-life situations.






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






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






31. Doing this for a purpose; teachers who use intentionality plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve.






32. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things






33. Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






35. Application of behavioral learning principles to understanding and changing behavior (What is the target behavior and the reinforcer)






36. 5 to 9 pieces of information






37. Strategy where students more easily discover and comprehend difficult concepts if they can talk with each other about the problems (constructivist supported learning)






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Mental patterns that guide behavior (Piaget)






45. Continuation (of behavior)






46. 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






47. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






48. Stage at which one can deal abstractly with hypothetical situations and can reason logically. (Piaget: ages 11 to adulthood)






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






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