PSQF 1075 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Educational Psychology, Lev Vygotsky, Critical Period
28 Mar 2014
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7p:075 educational psychology and measurement study guide for midterm exam. A distinct discipline concerned with teaching and learning processes; applies the methods and theories of psychology and has its own as well. Studies learning and teaching and at the same time, strive to improve educational practice. Descriptive studies surveys, interviews, dialogue samples, ethnographies, participant observation and case study. Experiments- single subject (systematic interventions to study effects with one person often by applying and then withdrawing a treatment), mircrogenetic (observation of entire period of change, many observations made, moment by moment dissection of behaviors) longitudinal/cross-sectional designs. Principles are establish through consistent findings of theories. Theories can still be disproven and aren"t universally accepted. Orderly, adaptive changes we go through from conception to death. People develop at different rates, it is orderly and it takes place gradually: physical- changes in the body personal- changes in the individual"s personality social- changes in the way an individual relates to others cognitive- changes in thinking.
