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Educational Psychology Vocab

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. View of cognitive development that emphasizes the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality. (Piaget's theory of development)






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






3. Variables for which there is no relationship between high/low levels of one and high/low levels of the other.






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






5. A change in an individual that results from experience.






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






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






8. A set of principles that relates to social environment to psychological development (Erikson is viewed this way)






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






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






11. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






12. Students are taught primarily or entirely in English






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






14. Strategies for learning in which initial letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase.






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. A set of principles that explains and relates certain phenomena.






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






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






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






23. Memorization of a series of items in a particular order.






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






25. 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






26. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






27. Stage at which children develop the capacity for logical reasoning and understanding of conservation but can use these skills only in dealing with familiar situations. (Piaget: ages 7 to 11)






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






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






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






31. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






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






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






34. Devices or strategies for aiding the memory






35. Food - water - and other consequence that satisfies a basic need.






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






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






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






39. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response






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






41. Memorization of facts or association that might be essentially arbitrary






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






43. The components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






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






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






46. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences






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






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






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






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