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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






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






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






4. A person's interpretation of stimuli






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






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






7. Something that can have more than one value - in a experiment researchers try to limit these to only that being tested.






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






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






10. Learning based on the observation of the consequences of others' behavior.






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






12. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. eye blinking in response to bright light).






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






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






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






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






17. Experiments in which researchers create a highly artificial - structured setting that exists for a brief period of time. Researchers can exert a very high degree of control over all the factors involved in the study.






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






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






20. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






21. Values computed from raw scores that relate students' performances to those of a norming group






22. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation and accommodation. (Piaget)






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






24. Research + common sense






25. Component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time.






26. 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






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






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






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






30. Evaluation of conclusions through logical and systematic examination of the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






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






32. The tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items.






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






34. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






35. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






36. The study of learning and teaching.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation






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






46. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






47. Students' attitude of readiness to begin a lesson






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






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






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