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Course Content: What is Educational Psychology?

What is a good teacher? What is a good learner?

What is Motivation?

What are the other factors that take part inthe teaching-learning process?

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Educational Psychology

Define and differentiate importantterms in educational psychology.

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Define & differentiate the following terms:

Education:

1) developing the capacities and potential

of the individual so as to prepare that

individual to be successful in a specificsociety or culture.

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Define & differentiate the following terms:

Education:

2) the process by which society transmits

to new members the values, beliefs,

knowledge, and symbolic expressions tomake communication possible within

society.

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Schooling:

Teaching and learning that takes

place in formal environments

Define & differentiate the following terms:

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Psychology:

the scientific studyof mind and behavior(or behavior and mental processes),especially as it relates to individual

human beings

Define & differentiate the following terms:

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Educational Psychology:

Combination of psychology and

education

A distinct scientific discipline within

psychology that includes both

methods of study and a knowledge

base

Define & differentiate the following terms:

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Educational Psychology:

Concerned primarily with understanding theprocesses of teaching and learning that take

place within formal environments and

developing ways of improving those methods

Important topics include learning theories;

teaching methods; motivation; cognitive,

emotional, and moral development; and

parent-child relationships

Define & differentiate the following terms:

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Learning:

relatively permanent change in anindividual's behavior or behavior potential

(or capability) as a result of experience or

practice

an internal change inferred from

behavior

Define & differentiate the following terms:

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Learning:

can be compared with the other

primary process producing

relatively permanent change--

maturation--that results frombiological growth and development

Define & differentiate the following terms:

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Teaching:

the purposeful direction andmanagement of the learning

process

Define & differentiate the following terms:

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Educational Psychology

is the scientific discipline that

addresses the questions

Why do some students learn more

than others?

and

What can be done to improve that

learning?

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Ed Psych encourages Reflective practice

Professional development

Instructional strategies

Self-efficacy YOU can do it!

Research