Edu Psych General
Teachers should apply ____ to teaching, like farmers apply botany and chemistry to farming.
What is Psychology?
Repeating something over and over again
What is short term memory?
True or False
The brain stops developing in your 20's.
What is False.
The Brain continues to develop throughout your lifetime.
This type of learning is most likely to help information store in long term memory
What is Meaningful Learning?
Behavior, internal behavior, and _________ could prevent/delay brain development.
What is environment?
Students were asked to name the 5 Great Lakes. One student said they remembered Lake Michigan because they have friends and family in Michigan.
What is this an example of?
Meaningful Learning
Information before it is encoded to the brain; can hold a lot of information at one time but not a long time.
What is sensory memory?
The brain has billions of __________.
What is a neuron?
Piaget's theories and Vygotsky's theories are examples of
Cognitive Development Theories
The mental process of thinking, learning, remembering, and being aware of your surroundings
What is cognition?
Instructional method or strategy that research has consistently shown to make changes in student development
What is evidence based practice?
Factors that impact long term memory
Sleep, environment, and mood
Neurons use the _________ to communicate
What is the synapses?
Scaffolding is an example of
What is evidence based learning?
Our brains are designed to make connections; the term(s) used to organize mental actions and/or facts.
What is a scheme/schema?
The three areas that educational psychologist conduct research in
What is learning, motivation, and development?
Using your 5 senses as well as directing your mind
What is attention?
Mental discomfort that spurs an individual to make sense of what they see; a part of the equation to reach Equilibration
What is Disequilibrium?
The difference between Piaget's Theory and Vygotsky's theory
What is individual v. social?
A pitfall of prior knowledge as a tool of learning; Tendency to seek information that confirms rather than discredits one’s current beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
The space between what a learner can do independently and what they can achieve with guidance and support from a more knowledgeable person, like a teacher or peer, essentially representing the ideal range of challenge for learning where significant progress can occur;
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
Cognition happens here: thinking, learning, remembering, and being aware of your surrounds.
What is working memory
5 Major Points about the brain as we learn about cognition and learning
What is
1.The brain continues to change and learn over the course of a lifetime.
2.The various parts of the brain work closely together with one another
3.Most learning involves changes in the brain (neurons, astrocytes, and their interconnections
4.The brain functions in close collaboration with the rest of the body
5.Brain function is only part of the picture when thinking about learning and instruction
The 4 stages of Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development:
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations.
focuses your attention and oversees all aspects of working memory.
What is Central Executive?