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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






2. A parts of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge






3. Student seeing and when appropriate having hands-on experience with concepts and skills.






4. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






5. Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes. (Piaget)






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






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






8. Children are taught reading or other subjects in their native language for a few years and then transitioned to English






9. Level of development immediately above a person's present level. (Vygotsky believed that this was where real learning took place)






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






11. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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






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






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






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






16. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






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






18. Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - or after application of the treatment.






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






20. The practice of grouping students in separate classes according to ability level






21. During this period children's continually maturing motor and language skills permit them to be increasingly aggressive and vigorous in the explorations of bot their social and their physical environment. 3 to 6 years (Erikson)






22. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






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






26. Play that occurs alone.






27. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations. (Piaget)






28. Important events that a fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






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






30. The value of each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






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






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






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






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






35. A theory of motivation based on the belief that people's efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward






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






37. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






38. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






40. Diagramming main ideas and the connections between them






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






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






43. State learning objectives and orient students to the lesson.






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






45. A type of evidence of validity that exists when scores on a test are related to scores from another measure of an associated trait






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






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






48. Identifies two main types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs. People are motivated to satisfy needs at the bottom of the hierarchy before seeking to satisfy those at the top. (deficiency needs bottom to top: physiological needs - safety need

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






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