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Purpose of Educational Psychology - correct answer ✔✔to create theories that can be implemented on a
larger scale in classrooms around the world
Teacher Efficacy - correct answer ✔✔teacher's belief that they can reach even the most difficult
students; teacher confidence can predict student achievement
Quantitative Research - correct answer ✔✔objective/uses numbers; explores relationships among
variables or differences between groups based on measurements and computations
Qualitative Research - correct answer ✔✔subjective; explores specific people of situations in depth; tells
a story; ex: interviews and observations
Correlation Studies - correct answer ✔✔explores the relationship between two variables; ranges from 1
to -1; correlation does NOT EQUAL causation
Positive Correlation - correct answer ✔✔indicates that the variables increase and decrease together
Negative Correlation - correct answer ✔✔indicates that as one variable increases, the other variable
decreases
Experimental Study - correct answer ✔✔experiments can conclude causation; random assignment;
quasi-experimental studies are when participants are not randomly assigned (i.e. classes/schools)
Single-Subject Experiments - correct answer ✔✔examines the impact of an intervention; tracks behavior
before intervention, experimenter adds the intervention and tracks behavior, takes away intervention
again, adds it back again
, Physical Development - correct answer ✔✔changes in the body; maturation
Personal Development - correct answer ✔✔changes in an individual's personality
Social Development - correct answer ✔✔changes in the way an individual relates to others
Cognitive Development - correct answer ✔✔changes in thinking
Plasticity - correct answer ✔✔the brain's ability to adapt
Lateralization - correct answer ✔✔specialization of the two sides/hemispheres of the brain; left
brain=language acquisition/logic; right brain= visual spatial/movements
Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development - correct answer ✔✔his theory is based on the fact that
children have cognitive abilities and mature in identifiable stages; the standard against which all other
theories are judged; 4 factors that influence changes are: biological maturation, activity, social
experiences, equilibration
Adaptation - correct answer ✔✔adjusting to the environment
Assimiliation - correct answer ✔✔incorporating information into existing schemes; i.e. child sees a
raccoon and believes that it's a cat
Accomodation - correct answer ✔✔changing/expanding schemes when new information is added
Sensorimotor Stage - correct answer ✔✔about 0-2 yrs; children explore the world using their senses;
object permanence/goal directed actions
Pre-operational Stage - correct answer ✔✔about 2-7 yrs; impressive cognitive acquisitions and equally
impressive limitations; symbolic representation- use of one object to stand for another (banana=phone);
egocentrism/centration
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