WGU Psychology for Educators –
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Educational Psychology ✔✔Educational psychologists study how students learn in classrooms
How Will Learning About Educational Psychology Help
You Be a Better Teacher? ✔✔• Teaching is complex work because it requires a wide range
of knowledge and skills
• Research in educational psychology offers many useful ideas
for improving classroom instruction
• Teachers who have had professional training are generally
more effective
The Nature and Values of Science ✔✔• Unsystematic observation may lead to false conclusions
• Grade retention policies are influenced by unsystematic observation
• Scientific methods: sampling, control, objectivity, publication, replication
Unsystematic observation ✔✔may lead to false conclusions
,Grade retention policies are influenced by ✔✔unsystematic observation
Scientific methods: ✔✔sampling, control, objectivity, publication, replication
Teaching as an art: ✔✔beliefs, emotions, values, flexibility
Research provides a scientific basis for ✔✔"artistic" teaching
Good teachers combine ✔✔"artistic" and "scientific" characteristics
Reflective teachers think about ✔✔what they do and why, have particular attitudes and abilities
Research focuses on a few aspects of a problem ✔✔• Complexity of teaching and learning limits
uniform outcomes
• Differences of opinion result from selection and interpretation of data
• Accumulated knowledge leads researchers to revise original ideas
,Piaget Organization ✔✔Tendency in coherently systematize and combine processes into general
systems (categories, order, classify)
Piaget Adaptations ✔✔Process of creating a good fit between one's conception of reality and
one's experiences (Assimilation or accomodation. Take new information to organize.)
Assimilation ✔✔interpreting an experience by fitting into an existing scheme.
Accomodation ✔✔interpreting an experience by changing an existing scheme to incorporate the
experience.
Piaget Schemes ✔✔Organized pattern of behavior or thought (outside edges of jigsaw puzzle.
How we think about things. Filing cabinet. Organize)
Piaget Equilibration ✔✔Tendency to organize schemes to allow better understanding of
experiences. (Tendency to organize, balance)
Marcia ✔✔4 identity statuses
, Marcia Identity Diffusion ✔✔NO crisis, NO commitment, little self direction, impulsive, low
self esteem.
Marcia Foreclosure ✔✔NO crisis, commitment made, close-minded and accepts and endorses
parental choices and values
Marcia Moratorium ✔✔Crisis experienced, NO commitment, anxious, changes major often, and
often dissatisfied.
Marcia Identity Achievement ✔✔Crisis experienced, commitment made, introspective, planful,
high self esteem.
Trust vs Mistrust ✔✔Birth - 3 years
Autonomy vs Shame ✔✔2-3 years
Wanting to do something by yourself
Initiative vs Guilt ✔✔4-5 years
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Educational Psychology ✔✔Educational psychologists study how students learn in classrooms
How Will Learning About Educational Psychology Help
You Be a Better Teacher? ✔✔• Teaching is complex work because it requires a wide range
of knowledge and skills
• Research in educational psychology offers many useful ideas
for improving classroom instruction
• Teachers who have had professional training are generally
more effective
The Nature and Values of Science ✔✔• Unsystematic observation may lead to false conclusions
• Grade retention policies are influenced by unsystematic observation
• Scientific methods: sampling, control, objectivity, publication, replication
Unsystematic observation ✔✔may lead to false conclusions
,Grade retention policies are influenced by ✔✔unsystematic observation
Scientific methods: ✔✔sampling, control, objectivity, publication, replication
Teaching as an art: ✔✔beliefs, emotions, values, flexibility
Research provides a scientific basis for ✔✔"artistic" teaching
Good teachers combine ✔✔"artistic" and "scientific" characteristics
Reflective teachers think about ✔✔what they do and why, have particular attitudes and abilities
Research focuses on a few aspects of a problem ✔✔• Complexity of teaching and learning limits
uniform outcomes
• Differences of opinion result from selection and interpretation of data
• Accumulated knowledge leads researchers to revise original ideas
,Piaget Organization ✔✔Tendency in coherently systematize and combine processes into general
systems (categories, order, classify)
Piaget Adaptations ✔✔Process of creating a good fit between one's conception of reality and
one's experiences (Assimilation or accomodation. Take new information to organize.)
Assimilation ✔✔interpreting an experience by fitting into an existing scheme.
Accomodation ✔✔interpreting an experience by changing an existing scheme to incorporate the
experience.
Piaget Schemes ✔✔Organized pattern of behavior or thought (outside edges of jigsaw puzzle.
How we think about things. Filing cabinet. Organize)
Piaget Equilibration ✔✔Tendency to organize schemes to allow better understanding of
experiences. (Tendency to organize, balance)
Marcia ✔✔4 identity statuses
, Marcia Identity Diffusion ✔✔NO crisis, NO commitment, little self direction, impulsive, low
self esteem.
Marcia Foreclosure ✔✔NO crisis, commitment made, close-minded and accepts and endorses
parental choices and values
Marcia Moratorium ✔✔Crisis experienced, NO commitment, anxious, changes major often, and
often dissatisfied.
Marcia Identity Achievement ✔✔Crisis experienced, commitment made, introspective, planful,
high self esteem.
Trust vs Mistrust ✔✔Birth - 3 years
Autonomy vs Shame ✔✔2-3 years
Wanting to do something by yourself
Initiative vs Guilt ✔✔4-5 years
