1. Advanced Educational Pschology
Tamara L. Jetton
Central Michigan University

2. Chapter 1
True/False
Children most effectively acquire new knowledge and skills in the first three years of life.
Some children are predominately left-brain thinkers, whereas others are predominately right-brain thinkers.
Children’s personalities are largely the result of their home environments.
The best way to learn and remember a new fact is to repeat it over and over.
Students often misjudge how much they know about a topic.

3. Chapter 1
True/False
Anxiety sometimes helps students learn and perform more successfully in the classroom.
Playing video games interferes with children’s cognitive development.
The ways in which teachers assess students’ learning influence what and how students actually learn.

4. Strategies for Studying and Learning Effectively (pp.15)
Relate what you read to your existing knowledge and prior experiences.
Actively consider how some new information might contradict your existing beliefs.
Tie abstract concepts and principles to concrete examples.
Elaborate on what you read, going beyond it and adding to it.
Periodically check yourself to make sure you remember and understand what you have read

5. General Principles of Human Development (p. 20)
Sequenced development is somewhat predictable.
Children develop at different rates.
Development means periods of rapid growth between periods of slower growth
Heredity and environment interact in their effects on development
Maturation

6. Bronfenbrenner’s Theory of Environmental Influence (p. 22)

7. Brain Theory
Different parts of the brain have different specialties, but they work closely with one another
Learning involves changing neurons and synapses
Developmental changes in the brain enable increasingly complex and efficient thought
Synaptogenesis
Synaptic pruning
Myelination
The brain remains adaptable throughout life