Educational Psychology Flashcards
What is educational Psychology?
An area of applied psychology that uses psychological theories and techniques to consider how we think and learn, and how we can address the learning needs of students
Behavioural Perspective: Key Concepts
- Conditioning (operant and classical)
- Observable
- One trial learning
- Associative learning
Cognitive Perspective: Key Concepts
- Internal
- Metacognition
- Active role
What is metacognition?
Monitoring the effectiveness of strategies and self-regulation
Constructionist Perspective: Key Concepts
- Accounts for cultural and social factors involved in learning
Biological Perspective: Key Concepts
- Physiology
- Genetics
- Comparative
Cyril Burt
- 11+
- Fake research?
Core Activities of Educational Psychologists
- Assessment
- Collaborative work
- Problem Solving
- Research
- Training
Graham and Weiner (1996)
- Teacher’s providing help
When teachers provide help before learners ask, the learners and others watching are more likley to conclude that learner does not have the ability to suceed
Value of educational psychology research to the teacher
- Aids decision making
- Provides evidence for effectiveness of particular programs of interventions
- Not necessarily same impact as research on medicine (Kennedy, 1997)
- Hattie and March (1996): affects teachers indirectly through education polices, teaching materials etc.
Allport (1947)
The aims of science are ‘understanding, prediction and control, above the levels achieved by unaided common sense’
POMO
The classical scientific approach of logical investigation using evidence, often referred to as positivism, is deeply flawed and outdated
Foucault (1978)
Knowledge and understanding are essentially arbitrary and socially constructed
Contextual systems model
- Pianta and Walsh, 1996
- We have to understand child development in the context of four systems: the individual child, the family, and the wider culture
Quality of teacher-child relationships
- O’Conner and McCarthy (2007)
- Studied that quality of teacher-child relationships in the US from preschool to third grade and considered how this impacted on the children’s achievement
- They found that good-quality relationships were associated with good achievement
- They were mediated by the behaviour of both child and teacher, and that they could protect children from the effects of problematic maternal relationships
