INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTERS 1-6/ EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, RATED A+

INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTERS 1-6/ EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, RATED A+ Educational psychology - -The study of learning and teaching Pedagogy - -The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process, the link between what a teacher wants students to learn and the students' actual learning. Intentionality - -Doing things for a purpose; teachers who use this plan their actions based on the outcomes they want to achieve Teacher efficacy - -The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts determine the success of their students Experiment - -Procedure used to test the effect of a treatment Random assignment - -Selection by chance into different treatment groups, intended to ensure equivalence of the groups Laboratory experiment - -Experiment in which conditions are highly controlled Internal validity - -The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question, rather than other factors Randomized Field Experiment - -Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs Experimental group - -Group that receives treatment during an experiment Control group - -Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment External validity - -Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations Single-case experiment - -Experiment that studies a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before, during, and after application of the treatment Correlational study - -Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur Descriptive research - -Research study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about a topic of interest (survey, interview) Action research - -Research carried out by educators in their own classrooms or schools (trying out a new teaching method) Development - -Orderly and lasting growth, adaptation, and change over the course of a lifetime Continues theories of development - -Theories based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood (rather than hereditary influences) Discontinuous theories of development - -Theories describing human development as occurring through a fixed sequence of distinct, predictable stages governed by inborn factors (rather than environment) Cognitive development - -Gradual, orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated Schemes - -Mental patterns that gui