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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






2. Approach to teaching in which the teacher transmits information directly to the students; lessons are goal oriented and structured by the teacher.






3. 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






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






5. In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning - hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values or right and wrong.






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






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






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






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






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






11. Teachers' use of examples - data - and other information from a variety of cultures.






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






14. Assessments that compare the performance of one students against the performance of others






15. The process of comparing oneself to other to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities - attitudes - and conduct.






16. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






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






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






21. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






22. Instruction tailored to particular students' needs - in which each student works at her or his own level and rate.






23. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






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






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






27. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many ways for students to reach those standards






28. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






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






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






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






32. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success depends on personal effort and abilities






33. Technique in which fact or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time.






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






35. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues on thought and of thought on action. developed by Bandura






36. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






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






38. Principles that have been thoroughly tested and found to apply in a wide variety of situations.






39. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






41. 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.






42. Writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read






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






44. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






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






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






47. An aversive stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again.






48. A study strategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






49. Images - concepts - or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand.






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