M2 Lecture 2 - Educational Psychology: Testing and Learning Flashcards
What is educaional psychology?
Application of psychological knowledge to understand and improve how people learn
Who are 4 key people that influenced the development of educational psychology?
- Herbert: formal steps of learning
- Witmer: evidence based interventions
- Binet: intelligence testing
- Piaget: cognitive development
What are the 4 historical emphases educational psychology comes from?
- Cognitive psychology
- Behavioural psychology
- Social cognitive theory
- Humanism
What does cognitive psychology involve?
Thinking, memory and learning, and how these processes occur
What does behavioural psychology involve?
Learning through demonstration, operant conditioning and reinforcement or training behaviour through associations or praise and punishment
What does the social cognitive theory involve?
Combines elements of cognition with behaviour. The idea is that children learn not just from their own experiences but from observing others and refelction on their attitudes and consequenses to their actions
What does humanism involve?
Student centered and focuses on their ecperience of learning
What is metacognition?
Our understanding of our own though processes. How good are we at assessing how much we’ve learnt?
What does JOL stand for, and what is it?
Judgements of learning, form of metacognition
What are the 3 types of cues that influcence our JOL?
- Intrinsic
- Mnemonic
- Extrinsic
What is the intrinsic cue?
Characteristics of the study items e.g. how easy or difficult do you think this material is to learn?
What is the mnemonic cue?
Internal signs about how well we’ve learnt material, how familiar it seems and how easey it is to recall the information
What is the extrinsic cue?
Relates to the condition of learning. How your learning session is structures, the study methods you use, how long you spend studying and the depth of processing your engaging in while your studying
What did Kornell & Son, 2009 do a study on?
Learning associations between word pairs. Participants JOLs were wrong
What are highly effective evidence based study techniques?
Based on Dunlosky et al., 2013
- Practice tests
- Distributed practice
