Advanced Educational Pschology

1. Advanced Educational Pschology Tamara L. Jetton Central Michigan University

2. Chapter 1 True/False • Children most effectively acquire new knowledge and skills in the first three years of life. • Some children are predominately left-brain thinkers, whereas others are predominately right-brain thinkers. • Children’s personalities are largely the result of their home environments. • The best way to learn and remember a new fact is to repeat it over and over. • Students often misjudge how much they know about a topic.

3. Chapter 1 True/False • Anxiety sometimes helps students learn and perform more successfully in the classroom. • Playing video games interferes with children’s cognitive development. • The ways in which teachers assess students’ learning influence what and how students actually learn.

4. Strategies for Studying and Learning Effectively (pp.15) • Relate what you read to your existing knowledge and prior experiences. • Actively consider how some new information might contradict your existing beliefs. • Tie abstract concepts and principles to concrete examples. • Elaborate on what you read, going beyond it and adding to it. • Periodically check yourself to make sure you remember and understand what you have read

5. General Principles of Human Development (p. 20) • Sequenced development is somewhat predictable. • Children develop at different rates. • Development means periods of rapid growth between periods of slower growth • Heredity and environment interact in their effects on development • Maturation

6. Bronfenbrenner’s Theory of Environmental Influence (p. 22)

7. Brain Theory • Different parts of the brain have different specialties, but they work closely with one another • Learning involves changing neurons and synapses • Developmental changes in the brain enable increasingly complex and efficient thought • Synaptogenesis • Synaptic pruning • Myelination • The brain remains adaptable throughout life