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29 Cards in this Set
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Reflective
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About teachers. Looking back at experiences and situations and analysing it. What could you have done better. Improve!
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Educational psychology
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Concerned with teaching and learning. Develops its own theories and methods using methods and theories of psychology.
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Descriptive Studies
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A lot of information about a specific situation. How do we collect this information? observations, surveys, interviews, recordings
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Ethnography
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a type of descriptive study. Looking at the natural setting or event and understand the meanings of these events
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Participant observation
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a type of descriptive study. researchers put themselves in the setting (classroom)
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Case study
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a type of descriptive study. studying one specific person/situation
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Correlation
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how closely two variables are related
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Positive correlation
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both variables increase/decrease together
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Negative correlation
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one variable increase, the other decrease
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Experimentation
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scientific method. Manipulating variables and recording effects.
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Subjects
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participants in a study
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Random
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no patterns
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Statistically signifcant
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not likely to be a chance of occurence
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single-subject experimental studies
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figure out what happens when we apply therapy, a teaching method, or some other type of intervention variable ON ONE specific person
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Microgenetic studies
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Analyse what happens cognitively as the study goes on for several days or weeks.
Study cognitive process as the change is happening. The goal is to figure out what mechanisms trigger this change. |
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Longitudinal studies
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Study that is recorded and documented for really long period of time usually ears.
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Cross-sectional studies
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study focusing on groups rather than individual.
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Action research
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teachers observe and test methods to improve teaching and learning for their students.
ACTIONS ARE MADE! |
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Principle
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Established, statements, relationship between factors
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Theory
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using principles to explain a phenomenon and make predictions based on those
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Cognitive Development
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mental processes go from simpler to more complex and sophisticated. Jean Piaget.
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Psychosocial theory
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Erik Erikson. Relation of the persons emotional needs to the social environment
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Developmental crisis
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A conflict where the person has to find a resolution which will prepare them for the next stage.
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behaviourism
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external events causes changes in behaviour
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information processing
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mind's activity of taking in, processing, and storing information
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social cognitive theory
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adds cognitive factors such as beliefs, self perceptions, and expectations to social learning theory
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Context
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total setting or situation that surrounds and interacts with a person or event
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Zone of proximal development
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phase where the child can master a task if you give him/her support
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Bioecological model
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describing nested social and cultural contexts that shape development
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