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Chp 1: Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology
Educational Psychology (UTSA Professor Smith)
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Undergraduate 3
02/12/2013

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educational psychology
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the disipline concerned with teaching and learning; applies methods & theories
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descriptive studies
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studies that collect detailed information about specific situations, uses obsertvation methods, surveys, interviews, etc.
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ethnography
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descriptive research that focuses on life in a group & tries to derive the meaning of event to people involved
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participant observation
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method for conducting descriptive research, the researcher become a participant to better understand
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case study
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intensive study of one person or case
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correlations
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statistical description of how closely two variants are related
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positive correlation
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relationship between two variable in which they increase or decrease together
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negative correlation
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relationship between 2 variables where one has a high value and the othe has a low value
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expirementation
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research method where variable are manipulated and the results are recorded
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participants/ subjects
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people or animals that are being studied
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random
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not following any rule; without pattern
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statistically signifigant
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not likely to occur
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single-subject expiremental studies
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interventions to study effects with one person, usually bby applying then taking away treatment
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microgenetic studies
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detailed observation and analysis of changes in cognitive process as the process unfold over days or weeks
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action research
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observation or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to improve teaching & learning for students
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principle
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established relationship between factors
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theory
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statment of principles that tries to explain a phenomenon and make predictions
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cognitive development
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gradual orderly mental changes that allow the mental processes to become more complex
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psychosocial theory
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desribes relation of a person's emotional needs to social development
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developmental crisis
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specific conflict whose resolution prepares the way for the next stage
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behaviorism
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explanations of learning that focus on external events as the cause of changes in behaviors
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information processing
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human mind's activity of taking in, storing, and using information
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social cognitive theory
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theory that adds concern with with cognitive factors like beliefs, self-perception, expectations to social learning
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context
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the setting or situation that surrounds & interacts with a person or event
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zone of proximal development
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phase when a child can master a task when given the proper help and support
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bioecological model
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Bronfenbenner's theory that describes the nested social and cultural context that shapes development
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lateralization
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localization of function on either the left or right side of the brain
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