Teaching and Educational Psychology
Cognitive and Linguistic Development
Personal and Social Development
Group and Individual Differences
Learning, Cognition, and Memory
100
Research that has both qualitative and quantitative data.
What is mixed-methods?
100
This makes messages travel fast from neuron to neuron.
What is myelin sheath?
100
According to Erikson, when do individuals develop the ability to trust?
What is infancy?
100
Instruction that integrates throughout the curriculum the perspectives and experiences of numerous cultural groups.
What is multicultural education?
100
Process of finding information previously stored in memory.
What is retrieval?
200
The use of prior knowledge to expand on a new idea.
What is elaboration?
200
This term is used to refer to the process of internalizing but also adapting the ideas and strategies of one's culture for one's own use.
What is appropriation?
200
Children learn to do what in Erikson's stage of initiative versus guilt.
What is initiate their own activities?
200
This form of language has certain unique pronunciations, idioms, and grammatical structures and is characteristic of a particular region or ethnic group.
What is dialect?
200
Changing the format of new information as it is being stored in memory.
What is encoding?
300
The belief that one is capable of executing certain behaviors or reaching certain goals.
What is self-efficacy?
300
What is the range of tasks children can accomplish only with support?
What is zone of proximal development?
300
Involves someone performing a behavior or a person watching someone else perform that behavior.
What is mirror neurons?
300
Maximizing consistently in classroom layout and weekly schedule and insistent on appropriate classroom behavior are strategies for children with...
What is autism spectrum?
300
Cognitive process in which learners embellish on new information based on what they already know.
What is elaboration?
400
This is when a teacher conducts research at school to address any issues.
What is action research?
400
This is an example of what?: Have two bottles of water of equal amount and one bottle is poured into a flat container. The student says the taller container has more water.
What is conservation?
400
"Jill helps her friend after she falls down at the playground." This is an example of what?
What is prosocial behavior?
400
This defines a student with a high probability of failing to acquire minimal academic skills necessary for success in the adult world.
What is student at risk?
400
Rapid repetition of a small amount of information to keep it fresh in working memory.
What is maintenance rehersal?
500
Research study that involves the manipulation of one variable to determine its possible effect on another variable, but without total control of additional variables that might have an impact on the outcome.
What is quasi-experimental study?
500
What is behavior an example of? "Justin is constantly grabbing objects and pulling them toward himself."
What is egocentrism?
500
A child that goes to school with holes on her clothes and consistently has bruises on her back is an example of...
What is maltreatment?
500
Black students perform worse than white students on the GRE when they think that the test is measuring their abilities, but when black students are told that the test is not measuring their abilities, they perform just as well as white students. This research is an example of what?
What is stereotype threat?
500
Component of memory holds and actively thinks about and processes a limited amount of information for a short time.
What is working memory?
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