edf 3210 Exam 1 Questions with correct Answers

metacognition - Answer- thinking about your thinking, understand that your thought process is different from others, how do you think best 3 metacognitive processes - Answer- 1. planning (Think before act) 2. monitoring progress (how am i doing?) 3. evaluating process (what works and what doesn't) content knowledge - Answer- knowledge on the actual subject, material, facts Pedagogical Knowledge - Answer- how tos, how to teach and make people learn Pedagogical-Content Knowledge - Answer- know who we're delivering material to, what we're delivering it to, knowing our audience and how to best deliver Incremental view of intelligence - Answer- belief that intelligence is plastic/fluid, can be built upon and increased with training Entity View of Intelligence - Answer- belief that intelligence is genetic, crystallized Mastery Orientation - Answer- paired with incremental view, hard work will make you learn things Performance-Orientation - Answer- paired with entity view, meet criteria for performance required of me, just get by, just perform when i need to Internal Loci of Control - Answer- attribute behaviors and events that happen to you to your own power (linked with depression, blaming oneself) External Loci of Control - Answer- attribute behaviors and events that happen to you to the outside world, out of their control, not accountable Goal of research in educational psychology - Answer- answer questions asked by educators on how to best do their job, find best ways to teach people characteristics of an expert teacher - Answer- motivate students, handle discipline problems, use diverse teaching methods, capitalize on strengths and compensate for weaknesses Automization - Answer- ability to call on information quickly, conserves energy Reflective Practice and Stance - Answer- open to continuous learning, ways to improve, questioning yourself, questioning your teaching methods what are some diverse roles of teachers? - Answer- advocators, caregivers, team player, consultants, politicians characteristics of an expert learner - Answer- effective learning strategies, incremental view of intelligence, high aspirations, high drive, personal responsibility Carney and Levin - Answer- memorizing overview topics aid in remembering smaller details, lower order connections facilitate learning of high-order information Howsepian and Saenz, 1992 - Answer- worked with Mexican American students, used encouragement to help work on their self-efficacy and test scores increased with increased confidence *Mischel's "Go" and "Know" systems - Answer- go= pleasure driven know=knowledge based Action Research - Answer- researcher benefits directly from the research Principle vs. Theory - Answer- principle: linking two key events theory: relationships between the principles/facts/events Descriptive vs. Experimental Research - Answer- D: observational, no manipulation E: manipulation Negative and Positive Correlation - Answer- P=upward N=downward (up to down) Statistically Significant - Answer- degree of relationship between variable is not likely due to chance