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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Decreased ability to learn new information - caused by interference from existing knowledge






2. Situation in which students appear to be on-task but are not engaged in learning.






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






4. Kounin - the degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student behavior at all times






5. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






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






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






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






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






10. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






13. An internal process that activates - guides and maintains behavior over time.






14. Piaget - Vygotsky - Erikson - and Kohlberg






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






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






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






18. The study of learning and teaching.






19. 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)






20. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






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






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






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






25. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






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






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






28. Present new material - conduct learning probes - provide independent practice - assess performance and provide feedback - provide distributed practice and review






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






30. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






31. Stages 5 & 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgments in realtion to abstract principles.






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






33. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or situation.






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






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






36. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






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






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






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






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






41. Imitation of others' behavior. (Bandura)






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






43. Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. The fact that an object exists even if it is out of sight.