Chapter 1 pt.1

Question 1

Teachers must?

Answer 1

1. motivate students
2. help students recognize what true mastery involves
3. assess where each student currently is in their learning and development
4. create a good environment for a student learn in

Question 2

How can teachers improve their self-development?

Answer 2

1. keep up with research
2. subject knowledge
3. specific strategies
4. community culture
5. self-efficacy

Question 3

How are teachers also students?

Answer 3

1. CECS
2. challenge your beliefs
3. check your understanding

Question 4

Educational psychology is a discipline that:
1.
2.

Answer 4

(1) systematically studies the nature of learning, child development, motivation, and related topics and
(2) applies its research findings to the identification and development of effective classroom practices

Question 5

True or False: Children most effectively acquire new knowledge and skills in the first three years of life

Answer 5

False

Question 6

neurons in the human brain spontaneously generate many new interconnections (_______) in the first two or three years of life

Answer 6

synapses

Question 7

_______ in the human brain spontaneously generate many new interconnections (synapses) in the first ____ or ______ years of life

Answer 7

neurons
two
three

Question 8

Is synaptic pruning good or bad? Why?

Answer 8

It is good because it eliminates unproductive and counterproductive responses and thereby making thinking and behavior more efficient

Question 9

True or False: the human brains’ development stops at a certain age

Answer 9

False; it continually develops throughout life

Question 10

True or False: Some children are predominantly left-brain thinkers, whereas others are predominantly right-brain thinkers

Answer 10

False; practically speaking there is no such things as left-brain or right brain thinking

Question 11

True or False: Children’s personalities are largely the result of their home environments

Answer 11

False

Question 12

________ has a significant impact on children’s personality

Answer 12

heredity

Question 13

True or False: The best way to learn and remember a new fact is to repeat it over and over

Answer 13

False

Question 14

A better alternative to repeating information repeatedly, is by ___________

Answer 14

elaboration

Question 15

using prior knowledge to expand or embellish on a new idea in some way

Answer 15

elaboration

Question 16

True or False: students know how much they know on a topic

Answer 16

False; students often misjudge how much they know about a topic

Question 17

True or False: Anxiety sometimes helps students learn and perform a topic

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False: Playing a video games interferes with children’s cognitive development

Answer 18

False

Question 19

True or False: The ways in which teachers assess students’ learning, influence what and how students actually learn

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Teachers are _______ ______

Answer 20

decision makers

Question 21

teaching must be based on the science of _________ and the science of __________

Answer 21

learning

instruction

Question 22

the use of instructional methods and other classroom strategies that research has consistently shown to bring about significant gains in students’ development and academic achievement

Answer 22

evidence-based practices

Question 23

What are the two types of research?

Answer 23

Qualitative

Quantitative

Question 24

Qualitative or quantitative research:

research yielding information that is inherently numerical in nature or can easily be reduced to numbers

Answer 24

Quantitative Research

Question 25

Qualitative or quantitative research:
research yielding information that cannot easily be reduced to numbers; typically involves an in-depth examination of a complex phenomenon

Answer 25

Qualitative Research

Question 26

What are the four general categories of quantitative research?

Answer 26

1. Descriptive Studies
2. Correlational Studies
3. Experimental Studies
4. Quasi-Experimental Studies

Question 27

research study that enables researchers to draw conclusions about the current state of affairs regarding an issue but not about correlation or cause-and-effect relationships

Answer 27

descriptive studies

Question 28

What type of study draws conclusions about the way things are- the current state of affairs?

Answer 28

descriptive studies

Question 29

Descriptive Studies don’t enable?

Answer 29

1. predictions about one variable based on another variable or
2. conclusions about cause-and-effect relationships