EDPY 200-Educational Psychology
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What are the 2 types of learning objectives?
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1. General curricular objectives
2. Specific instructional objectives
Reliability - refers to consistency of test results
Validity - refers to degree to which a test measures what it is intended to
measure. In order to have validity, the decisions and inferences based on the test
must be supported by evidence (always judged in relation to a particular use or
purpose)
Behavioural: Objective has 3 parts - describes intended student behaviour, lists
conditions under which behaviour will occur, and lastly gives criteria for
acceptable performance
Cognitive: Objective should be stated in more general terms and teacher should
clarify by listing examples
, 1. Performance approach: focus is being superior, winning, and being the best.
Standards used are normative
2. Performance avoidance: Focus is avoiding looking stupid, and avoiding losing.
Standards used are normative
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What is cognitive load? How is it different from WM?
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Learners with high self-efficacy will attribute their successes and failures to the
effort they exerted towards the task. Failures are described as being due to lack
of effort, misunderstandings of directions, or just not studying enough, and so
the will usually focus on strategies for succeeding next time.
Refers to amount of mental resources that is required to perform a task (or
volume of resources necessary to complete a task). It refers to the
requirement of a task and is external and WM is the processing ability of an
individual and is internal.
Forgetting is process of info being lost from WM. It can occur through
interference, in which processing new info interferes or gets confused with old
info (new thoughts accumulate and old info is lost) or decay, which is weakening
and fading of memories with passage of time (occurs if you do not continue to
pay attention to info)
, Focus on how individuals use info, resources, and help from others to build and
improve their mental models and problem-solving strategies. Embraces idea that
as individuals interpret their experiences in particular situations, they construct
their own cognitive structures. Outside world is seen as a source of input
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Definition
Interdisciplinary science of learning, based on research in
psychology, education, computer science, philosophy, sociology,
anthropology, neuroscience, and other fields that study learning.
Interested in how deep knowledge in subjects like science, math,
and literacy is acquired and applied in real world of scientists,
mathematicians, and writers.
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What are the major questions about What are the learning
cognitive development? sciences?
What are the 5 different What are the twins sins of
reinforcement schedules? instructional design?
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What was Piaget's view of egocentric speech?
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1. Acceleration: Moved quickly through grades or through particular subjects
2. Enrichment: giving students additional, more sophisticated, and more thought-
provoking work, but keeping them with their age range at school
3. Mixed-ability cooperative groups: gifted students tend to learn more when
placed with other high-ability peers, and appear to be less bored. However their
academic self-concept tends to decrease (little fish/big pond effect)
(AKA collective monologue) Form of speech in which children in a group
talk but do not really interact or communicate, and Piaget believed this was
an indication that young children can only see the world through their own
eyes (only talking about what matters to them instead of taking interest into
what matters to others)
Basic, abstract knowledge structures for organizing vast amounts of info (or
concepts) Helps us to form an understand concepts. It's a mental framework that
guides our perception and helps us make sense of or experience based on what
we already know and what we expect to happen (e.g. story grammars)
Smallest unit of knowledge that can be judged true or false/ Propositions that
share info are then linked in propositional networks (sets of interconnected
concepts and relationships in which long-term knowledge is held)
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Final Exam with 199 Possible
questions and answers 2026 prep
solution
Your answers
1 of 199
Term
What are the 2 types of learning objectives?
Give this one a try later!
1. General curricular objectives
2. Specific instructional objectives
Reliability - refers to consistency of test results
Validity - refers to degree to which a test measures what it is intended to
measure. In order to have validity, the decisions and inferences based on the test
must be supported by evidence (always judged in relation to a particular use or
purpose)
Behavioural: Objective has 3 parts - describes intended student behaviour, lists
conditions under which behaviour will occur, and lastly gives criteria for
acceptable performance
Cognitive: Objective should be stated in more general terms and teacher should
clarify by listing examples
, 1. Performance approach: focus is being superior, winning, and being the best.
Standards used are normative
2. Performance avoidance: Focus is avoiding looking stupid, and avoiding losing.
Standards used are normative
Don't know?
2 of 199
Term
What is cognitive load? How is it different from WM?
Give this one a try later!
Learners with high self-efficacy will attribute their successes and failures to the
effort they exerted towards the task. Failures are described as being due to lack
of effort, misunderstandings of directions, or just not studying enough, and so
the will usually focus on strategies for succeeding next time.
Refers to amount of mental resources that is required to perform a task (or
volume of resources necessary to complete a task). It refers to the
requirement of a task and is external and WM is the processing ability of an
individual and is internal.
Forgetting is process of info being lost from WM. It can occur through
interference, in which processing new info interferes or gets confused with old
info (new thoughts accumulate and old info is lost) or decay, which is weakening
and fading of memories with passage of time (occurs if you do not continue to
pay attention to info)
, Focus on how individuals use info, resources, and help from others to build and
improve their mental models and problem-solving strategies. Embraces idea that
as individuals interpret their experiences in particular situations, they construct
their own cognitive structures. Outside world is seen as a source of input
Don't know?
3 of 199
Definition
Interdisciplinary science of learning, based on research in
psychology, education, computer science, philosophy, sociology,
anthropology, neuroscience, and other fields that study learning.
Interested in how deep knowledge in subjects like science, math,
and literacy is acquired and applied in real world of scientists,
mathematicians, and writers.
Give this one a try later!
What are the major questions about What are the learning
cognitive development? sciences?
What are the 5 different What are the twins sins of
reinforcement schedules? instructional design?
Don't know?
, 4 of 199
Term
What was Piaget's view of egocentric speech?
Give this one a try later!
1. Acceleration: Moved quickly through grades or through particular subjects
2. Enrichment: giving students additional, more sophisticated, and more thought-
provoking work, but keeping them with their age range at school
3. Mixed-ability cooperative groups: gifted students tend to learn more when
placed with other high-ability peers, and appear to be less bored. However their
academic self-concept tends to decrease (little fish/big pond effect)
(AKA collective monologue) Form of speech in which children in a group
talk but do not really interact or communicate, and Piaget believed this was
an indication that young children can only see the world through their own
eyes (only talking about what matters to them instead of taking interest into
what matters to others)
Basic, abstract knowledge structures for organizing vast amounts of info (or
concepts) Helps us to form an understand concepts. It's a mental framework that
guides our perception and helps us make sense of or experience based on what
we already know and what we expect to happen (e.g. story grammars)
Smallest unit of knowledge that can be judged true or false/ Propositions that
share info are then linked in propositional networks (sets of interconnected
concepts and relationships in which long-term knowledge is held)
Don't know?
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