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EPSY 2130 Exam 1 questions andcorrect answers
A teacher's sense of efficacy - correct answer ✔✔a teacher's belief that he or she can reach even difficult
students to help them learn
Predicts Student achievement
Grows from real success with students
Experience and training - correct answer ✔✔A teacher's sense of efficacy does/is a product of three
things:
91% - correct answer ✔✔What percentage of teachers are white?
2002 - correct answer ✔✔What year did the No Child Left Behind Act begin?
school success - correct answer ✔✔Positive student/teacher relationships are associated with
__________
It started with educators and psychologists observing children in classrooms and has shifted toward
research on teaching and learning,child/adolescent development, and motivation. - correct answer
✔✔Explain how educational psychology has changed over time.
the study of teaching and learning - correct answer ✔✔Educational psychology is a field dedicated to:
Educational Psychology - correct answer ✔✔The discipline concerned with teaching and learning
processes; applies the methods and theories of psychology and has its own as well
Descriptive studies - correct answer ✔✔The following methods full under which type of study?
,survey results
interview responses
video or audio of classroom interactions
Correlational Studies - correct answer ✔✔Which type of study asks: what is the relation between two
variables?
Microgenetic Studies - correct answer ✔✔Type of study that studies cognitive processes in the midst of
change
Single-Subject Experimental Design - correct answer ✔✔Type of study that examines the impact of an
intervention
Experimental Studies - correct answer ✔✔The following methods full under which type of study?
Random assignment
Cause and effect relationships
Quasi-experimental studies
Action research - correct answer ✔✔Systematic observations of rests of methods conducted by teachers
or schools to improve teaching and learning for their students
systematic observation or experiments
rigorous data analysis procedures
clearly described and repeatable
must be peer reviewed - correct answer ✔✔What four requirements must be met by Educational
Psychology research in order for it to be accepted by NCLB?
Principle - correct answer ✔✔an established link between two or more factors; will help you with
specific problems; will provide new ways of thinking about problems
, Theory - correct answer ✔✔an interrelated set of concepts that is used to explain a body of data and to
make predictions about the results of future experiments"
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔a prediction of what will happen in a research study based on previous
research
Clear hypothesis or questions
Systematic gathering and analyzing data
Improving theories based on results
Asking new questions - correct answer ✔✔Name the four aspects of the research cycle
sensitive periods - correct answer ✔✔periods when children are especially responsive to certain
experiences
Development - correct answer ✔✔Orderly, adaptive changes that occur in human beings between
conception and death.
People develop at different rates
Development is an orderly process
Development takes place gradually - correct answer ✔✔List the three principles of development
Physical development - correct answer ✔✔Types of development:
changes in the body, maturation
Personality development - correct answer ✔✔Types of development:
changes in an individual's personality
Social development - correct answer ✔✔Types of development:
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