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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as inner speech.






2. The goals of students who are motivated primarily by a desire to gain recognition from others and to earn good grades.






3. Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur.






4. Environmental conditions that activate the senses






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






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






7. Programs that are designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






8. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation






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






10. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






11. A level of rapidity and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort.






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






13. Learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted - often artificial - applications.






14. 5 to 9 pieces of information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Basic skills are gradually build into more complex skills.






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






25. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements teachers can directly control: quality - appropriateness - incentive - and time.






26. Learning of words (or facts expressed in words).






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






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






29. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






30. 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.






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






32. A personality trait that determines whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal or external factors






33. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than to their age alone).






34. A theory that relates the probability and the incentive value of success to motivation






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






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






37. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






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






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






40. In Piaget's theory of moral development - the stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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






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






43. Signals as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished. (also know as antecedent stimuli)






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






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






46. Research + common sense






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






48. Middle adulthood (Erikson). the interest in establishing and guiding the next generation.






49. Problem-solving technique that encourages indentifying the goal (ends) to be attained - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






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