Ed Psych Theories
Theory characterized by its emphasis on reinforcement and punishment
What is behaviorism?
Region of the brain responsible for planning and rational thinking.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The burden that an activity places on working memory.
What is cognitive load?
Planning, monitoring, and evaluating are components of this major process and concept.
What is self-regulated learning?
This type of assessment is given AFTER instruction to examine what students have learned.
What is summative assessment?
Part of Bronfrenbrenner's bioecological model that consists of an individual's peers, family, teachers, etc.
What is the microsystem?
When adolescents are in the presence of these people, their tendency to take risks dramatically increases
Who are peers?
Knowing the capitals of all 50 states is an example of this kind of knowledge.
What is declarative knowledge?
SQ3R and Cornell notes are note-taking strategies that promote this process.
What is metacognition?
This type of intelligence represents one’s knowledge and skills gained accumulated from experiences, schooling, and culture
What is crystallized intelligence?
This is the learning condition where the material is just challenging enough for students to do it with a little bit of teacher assistance.
What is the zone of proximal development?
The reward system of the brain including the hippocampus and the amygdala
What is the limbic system?
To help herself learn the early explorers of the New World, Jane makes a chart that lists the Spanish explorers together, the Portuguese explorers together, the French explorers together, and so on. Jane is demonstrating this process for meaningful learning.
What is organization?
Remembering the facts without attaching meaning (memorization)
What is rote learning?
These two qualities of assessments are the most critical when designing and judging the effectiveness of an assessment.
What are reliability and validity?
Louis receives a new football and kicks it the same way he kicks his soccer ball. His kicking of the new ball represents this concept from Piaget's theory of learning and cognitive development
What is assimilation?
Steinberg (2007) suggested that to reduce adolescent risk-taking behaviors, we must change this
What is the context of risk-taking?
Jordan is using these when chooses to chew minty gum while he's studying and also chew gum during his exam.
What are retrieval cues?
When learning in one context facilitates learning in another
What is positive transfer?
Analytic, Creative, and Practical intelligence are components of this intelligence theory
What is Sternberg's Triarchic theory?
Both Piaget and Vygotsky emphasize the importance of this in their theories of how children learn and understand.
What is social interaction?
As children grow older, many of their neurons begin to transmit messages more rapidly than they did in the early years of life, thanks to this.
What is synaptic pruning?
Dunlosky (2013) reported that the most effective study and learning strategies are these 2 strategies.
What are practice testing and distributed practice?
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
A cumulative exam includes questions from each relevant chapter. This assessment demonstrates high...
What is content validity?