PPR Exam Study Guide

Flashcards to study the PPR Exam EC-12

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Benjamin Bloom (1976)
Suggested that students cognitive entry skills and intelligence (IQ) account for about 50% of what students achieve academically; 25% can be attributed to the quality of instructions students receive;25% can ba attributed to affective characteristics of the students.
Affective characteristics include
Learner's personality, self-concept, locus control, attitudes, level of anxiety and study habits
Teachers need to understand
Cognitive and affective factors that influence student performance
Tabula rasa
Blank slate
Principles of human development
Physically, mentally or cognitively, emotionally, and socially. (dynamic and interactive view of human development)
Effective teachers
Must be sensitive to and knowledgable fo both personal characteristics of students and characteristics of their environment
Issues affecting physical growth and maturation
Proper nutrition, adequate rest, and physical activity, the undue influence of drug abuse on student's academic performance and social interactions
Imaginary audience
Always thinking they are being the target, or feel that they never fit in..p.24
Personal fable
Refers to the belief that no one understands what they feel or what they are going through...
Cognition
The processes whereby knowledge is acquired; the term can be used to cober very basic perceptual processess--such as smell, touch, sound, and so forth---to very advanced operations, such as analysis, synthesis, and critical thinking.
John Piaget
(?-1980)predominant figure in the field of cognitive psychology
Equilibrium
Equilibrium
Accomodation
Adjusting prior knowledge gained through former experiences and interactions
Assimilation
Fitting together the new information with what has been previously known or understood
Stage thoery
Theories that share the common tenet that certain characteristics will occur in predictable sequences and at certain times in the life if the individual