Define It
The definition of Educational Psychology
What is the study of what people think, do & feel in educational settings
The behaviorism view of learning
what is learning is based on a stimulus - response condition?
Name two non-experimental research designs
what are descriptive and correlations studies
rewarding successive approximations of a desired behavior
What is shaping?
Where unencoded information is received through the senses
What is the sensory register?
The variable that is manipulated in an experimental study
what is the independent variable?
The assumption of Social Cognitive theory
What is observational learning or learning by observation?
The purpose of experimental research designs and studies
What is to Determine if one variable causes another?
The assumption that an individual, the environment and behavior are mutually influence each other
what is reciprocal causation?
Where information is stored for 1-2 minutes for limited rehearsal. Also controls focus, voluntary behaviors and thoughts
When a stimulus - response contingency no longer produces the response (1) and when it suddenly reoccurs (2)
What is extinction and what is spontaneous recovery?
Cognitive processes underlie human behavior, including perception, memory, forgetting and reasoning.
Four sources of data collection are....
what is
observation
self-reports
psychological reports
physiological reports
archival data
The four schedules of reinforcement used in behaviorism theory/practice
what is maintenance, interval, ratio and interval reinforcement?
Two reasons why learners forget
what is failure to activate prior knowledge?
what is decay?
what are insufficient retrieval cues?
what is attention?
what is perspective?
Person’s self-constructed judgment about his or her ability to execute certain behaviors or reach certain goals (1) and a person's ability to establish our own priorities & goals, & Evaluate ones own behaviors
what is self-efficacy?
and what is self-regulation?
Three factors that influence metacognitive processing
what is age
gender
culture
individ. processing speed
individ. background knowledge
Quasi-experimental studies differ from experimental studies in this way...
can't control for confounding variables
Two forms of using/applying content after learning it, particularly in new contexts
What is negative or positive transfer?
When recall of information from the beginning of a list is better (1) or when recall of information from the end of the list is better (2)
what is primacy effect?
what is recency effect?
The definition of metacognition
What is "thinking about thinking" and involves the cognitive processes of transfer
problem solving,
creativity
critical thinking
Three keys components of Social cognitive theory
What is modeling, self-efficacy and self-regulation?
Researchers wanted to study issues of class size and student behavior. They looked at average class size at 50 schools throughout the state, making sure the schools represented a cross-section of the population (in terms of SES, race and type of community). They gave surveys to teachers about student behavior and looked at the number of school suspensions. They found that schools with lower class size generally had fewer behavioral problems.
•These are the sources of data/types of measurement were used -
•This is the general research design was used -
what is archival data & surveys?
what is correlational?
Identify four ways to foster creativity?
•Show students that creativity is valued
•Focus on internal rewards
•Promote mastery of subject area
•Ask thought-provoking questions
•Teach and encourage cognitive and metacognitive strategies that support creative thinking
•Give students freedom, security to take risks
•Provide necessary time & resources
what is declarative knowledge (rote memorization of math facts)?
what is procedural knowledge (making a cake)?