EDUC2102 PASS Week 8 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

English 15 Public

Educational Psychology - covering content from weeks 1 - 8

Study Slideshow

What is metacognition? (Week 7)

Thinking about thinking - awareness, monitoring and control over thinking and learning.

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Define 'cognition'. (Week 7)

The process of thinking/understanding/processing information.

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What do we call motivation that comes from within the learner? (Week 8)

Intrinsic

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What is the over-justification effect? (Week 8)

When expected external incentives (like money, prizes, etc) decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to do a task.

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What is 'attribution'? (week 8)

Explanation of cause - why something happened.

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What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)? (Week 2)

The 'gap' between what a student already knows and what is out of reach. What the learner can do with help.

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Name one level of Bloom's Taxonomy. (Week 1)

Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, Create.

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Name a primary emotion. (Week 3).

Happiness, sadness, anger, etc.

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Name a secondary emotion. (Week 3)

Jealousy, envy, shame, pride, etc.

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What is selective attention, or the 'cocktail party' effect? (Week 4)

Our brain's ability to focus in on one conversation while cancelling out background noise/conversations.

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What is Working Memory? (Week 4)

The part we are 'doing something with'. Short term memory.

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Define Intrinsic cognitive load. (Week 5).

The inherent difficulty of the information.

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What is the difference between surface and deep learning? (Week 6)

Surface learning = memorising information without real understanding. Deep = a holistic, contextual understanding of the concept.

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In relation to Intrinsic Cognitive Load, what is Element Interactivity? (Week 5)

The extent to which elements of the material relate to each other. (eg, a list of chemical symbols = low interactivity)

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Give an example of primary knowledge. (Week 5)

Knowledge we are biologically designed to acquire - eg learning language, recognising faces.

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