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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others






2. A person's eight separate abilities: logical/mathematical - linguistic - musical - naturalist - spatial - bodily/kinesthetic - interpersonal - and intrapersonal. (Garner)






3. Assisted learning; an approach in which the teacher guides instruction by means of scaffolding to help students master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.






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






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






6. A regrouping method in which students are grouped across grade lines for reading instruction






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






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






9. Length of time that a teacher waits for a student to answer a question






10. Mental processing of new informations that relates to previously learned knowledge.






11. Decreased ability to recall previously learning information - caused by learning of new information.






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






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






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






16. Wait for students to respond - avoid unnecessary achievement distinctions among students - and treat all students equally.






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






18. Helping students understand how the knowledge we take in is influence by our origins and points of view.






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






20. Teaching of a new skill or behavior by means of reinforcement for small steps toward the desired goal.






21. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge in the mind.






22. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






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






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






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






27. Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools.






28. Use of direct - simple - and well-organized language to present concepts.






29. A strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations






30. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels






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






32. General aptitude for learning - often measured by the ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






33. Theories that state that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising rules when they no longer work. (student-centered instruction)






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






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






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






37. Simple to complex: knowledge (recall) - comprehension (translating - interpreting - or extrapolating) - application (using principles or abstractions to solve novel or real-life problems) - analysis (breaking down complex information or ideas into si






38. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






39. A small-group teaching method based on principles of question generation; through instruction and modeling - teachers foster metacognitive skills primarily to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension






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






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






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






43. 12 to 18 years (Erikson) 'Who am I?' is the big question






44. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes






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






46. Responses to questions made by an entire class in unison






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






48. 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.






49. Research + common sense






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