Test your basic knowledge |

Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.






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






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






4. Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn ('thinking about thinking')






5. Students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves






6. Continuation (of behavior)






7. The tendency to analyze oneself and one's own thoughts






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






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






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






11. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples






12. 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






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






14. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






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






17. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not his or her own (Marcia)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response. (Pavlov)






26. Perception of and response to different stimuli






27. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






29. Inhibition of recall of certain information by the presence of other information in memory.






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






31. Programs - generally at the primary level - that combine children of different ages in the same class. Also called cross-age grouping programs.






32. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget learning depends on this process.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time.






40. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self (Marcia)






41. Play that is much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






42. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others






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






44. A person's ability to develop his or her full potential






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






46. Teacher works out an example of a problem on the board...modeling their thought process.






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






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






49. Stages 3 & 4 of Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning - in which individuals make moral judgements in consideration of others.






50. A person's interpretation of stimuli







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests