EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY CH.1-7 EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH RIGHT ACTUAL
ANSWERS.
Educational psychology - Correct Answer -The discipline or field about learners, learning,
and teaching.
Pedagogy - Correct Answer -The study of teaching and learning with application to the
instructional process.
Intentional teachers - Correct Answer -Teachers who do things for a reason, on purpose.
Teacher efficacy - Correct Answer -The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts
determine the success of their students.
Theory - Correct Answer -Sets of principles and facts that attempt to explain some
phenomenon.
Law - Correct Answer -Individual principles that have been thoroughly tested.
Principle - Correct Answer -These explain relationships between factors.
Experiement - Correct Answer -A systematic procedure used to study the effects of a
treatment.
Internal validity - Correct Answer -The degree to which the results of a laboratory experiment
can be directly attributed to the treatment studied rather than other factors.
Single-case experiment - Correct Answer -A type of research in which a single participant's
behavior may be observed over a period of time.
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, Correlational study - Correct Answer -A type of research that explores the degree to which
two variables are related.
Descriptive research - Correct Answer -A type of non-experimental study aimed at
systematically identifying and gathering detailed information about something.
Intentionality - Correct Answer -When teachers think about the outcomes they desire in their
lessons and how each decision made moves a student toward these objectives, what are they
demonstrating?
Development - Correct Answer -The descriptive term that refers to how and why people
grow, adapt, and change over their lifetimes.
Continuous theories of development - Correct Answer -A set of principles and laws that
suggests that, at a fairly early age, children are capable of thinking and acting like adults,
given the proper experience and education.
Discontinuous theories of development - Correct Answer -Theories that draw on inborn
factors more than environmental influences, in explaining the sequence of changes in
development.
Schemes - Correct Answer -The patterns of behavior or thinking that children and adults use
in dealing with objects in the world.
Adaptation - Correct Answer -The process of adjusting schemes in response to the
environment by means of assimilation an accommodation.
Assimilation (Piaget) - Correct Answer -The process of understanding a new object or event
in terms of an existing scheme.
Equilibration - Correct Answer -In Piagetian theory, the process of restoring balance between
present understanding and new experiences.
Reflexes - Correct Answer -In the sensorimotor stage of development, all infants have inborn
behaviors that are described by this term.
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QUESTIONS WITH RIGHT ACTUAL
ANSWERS.
Educational psychology - Correct Answer -The discipline or field about learners, learning,
and teaching.
Pedagogy - Correct Answer -The study of teaching and learning with application to the
instructional process.
Intentional teachers - Correct Answer -Teachers who do things for a reason, on purpose.
Teacher efficacy - Correct Answer -The degree to which teachers feel that their own efforts
determine the success of their students.
Theory - Correct Answer -Sets of principles and facts that attempt to explain some
phenomenon.
Law - Correct Answer -Individual principles that have been thoroughly tested.
Principle - Correct Answer -These explain relationships between factors.
Experiement - Correct Answer -A systematic procedure used to study the effects of a
treatment.
Internal validity - Correct Answer -The degree to which the results of a laboratory experiment
can be directly attributed to the treatment studied rather than other factors.
Single-case experiment - Correct Answer -A type of research in which a single participant's
behavior may be observed over a period of time.
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, Correlational study - Correct Answer -A type of research that explores the degree to which
two variables are related.
Descriptive research - Correct Answer -A type of non-experimental study aimed at
systematically identifying and gathering detailed information about something.
Intentionality - Correct Answer -When teachers think about the outcomes they desire in their
lessons and how each decision made moves a student toward these objectives, what are they
demonstrating?
Development - Correct Answer -The descriptive term that refers to how and why people
grow, adapt, and change over their lifetimes.
Continuous theories of development - Correct Answer -A set of principles and laws that
suggests that, at a fairly early age, children are capable of thinking and acting like adults,
given the proper experience and education.
Discontinuous theories of development - Correct Answer -Theories that draw on inborn
factors more than environmental influences, in explaining the sequence of changes in
development.
Schemes - Correct Answer -The patterns of behavior or thinking that children and adults use
in dealing with objects in the world.
Adaptation - Correct Answer -The process of adjusting schemes in response to the
environment by means of assimilation an accommodation.
Assimilation (Piaget) - Correct Answer -The process of understanding a new object or event
in terms of an existing scheme.
Equilibration - Correct Answer -In Piagetian theory, the process of restoring balance between
present understanding and new experiences.
Reflexes - Correct Answer -In the sensorimotor stage of development, all infants have inborn
behaviors that are described by this term.
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