Educational psychology provides teachers with ______-based principles to guide their teaching.
What is research
100
When the values of one variable are high, the values of the other are also high. What type of correlation is being described?
What is positive
100
The role of private speech, in Vygotsky's view, is to
What is guide one's activities in solving a problem
100
Kohlberg studied individuals' responses to hypothetical problems called
What is moral dilemmas
100
Prosocial behavior is promoted by parents who maintain a cool, businesslike relationship with their children OR parents who stress the consequences of the child's behavior for others
What is parents who stress the consequences of the child's behavior for others
200
Teachers who demonstrate skill in communicating with students possess
What is pedagogical knowledge
200
A researcher wants to study the effects of rewards on motivation. Two groups of students are set up; one group receives rewards for its efforts and the other group does not. In order to ensure that the two groups are essentially equivalent, what procedure should the researcher use?
What is randomly assign students to groups
200
A child knows that if 7 + 5 = 12, then 12 - 5 = 7. This requires which one of the following cognitive characteristics?
What is reversibility
200
Children at the preconventional level of moral reasoning concentrate on
What is how to further their own interests and avoid being punished
200
A nursery school teacher tells a mother that her child engages in parallel play. The mother might see her child frequently playing
What is playing along side of others but with little interaction.
300
Content knowledge is to "what to teach" as ________ is to "how to teach.
What is pedagogy
300
A math teacher randomly assigns one group of students to use computers and one group to use work sheets when learning fractions. The teacher then compares the two groups by giving both groups a test of fractions knowledge. What type of research was conducted?
What is experiment
300
Define the term seriation
What is arrangement of things in a logical progression
300
According to Erikson, a young adult who does not seek out close relationships with other people may develop a sense of
What is isolation
300
Elementary students have developed ideas about their strengths and weaknesses. Their perception of these qualities is referred to as
What is self-concept
400
Teachers who think about the outcomes they want for their students and how each decision they make moves students toward those outcomes
What is an intentional teacher
400
A music teacher finds that the amount of time students spend listening to rap music is negatively correlated with grades in music class. Based on these results, the teacher might conclude that listening to rap music
What is associated with low grades
400
Which cognitive stage and characteristic are children showing when they believe that everyone sees the world exactly as they do?
What is preoperational stage; egocentric thought
400
According to Kohlberg, for individuals operating at which level of moral development is morality defined in terms of cooperation with peers?
What is conventional
400
What term describes children who are neither frequently named as someone who is liked, nor someone who is disliked?
What is neglected children
500
Teachers who have strong teacher efficacy are likely to _____ in their efforts, even when students ______
What is persist & fail
500
A teacher experimented with different approaches to instruction in a class. Although all of the conditions of the experiment could not be controlled, the teacher's study was meaningful to real students in real classrooms because it followed all the rules of good research. Therefore, the results show a high degree of _____ validity
What is external
500
Piaget divided cognitive development into what sequences of stages?
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
500
A student does not really think about plagiarism as a true injustice to her fellow students. She believes it's acceptable because her close friends say that plagiarism is just a survival skill that everybody uses. Applying Kohlberg's theory of moral development, what level best identifies the student's judgment about plagiarism?
What is conventional (stage 3 or 4)
500
Research has shown that before entering school many young children have learned that print is arranged from left to right, and that books are read from front to back. This knowledge about reading is know as