Exam II

Educational Psychology Review Guide

Chapter 5
-Cultural-deficit model
-Social class and cultural differences
-Learned helplessness
-Resistance cultural
-Tracking
-Ethnic groups and cognitive abilities
-Outcomes of Brown vs. Board of Education
-Prejudice and discrimination
-Stereotype threat
-Gender differences in schools
-Bilingual education programs and goals
-Learning styles research findings and flaws

Chapter 6
-Behavioral views of learning
-Definition of learning
-Principle of contiguity
-Classical conditioning
-The balloon demonstration
-Discrimination, generalization, extinction
-Operant conditioning
-Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, presentation punishment, removal punishment
-Schedules of reinforcement and their effects on motivation
-token reinforcement strategies
-shaping

Chapter 7
-Domain-specific, declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge
-Sensory, short-term, and long-term memory (capacity and duration for each)
-Working Memory
-Elaborative and maintenance rehearsal
-Chunking
-prototypes
-Levels of processing theory
-Decay and reconstruction
-Serial position effect
-Mnemonic devices (the loci method, acronyms, keyword, and peg-type)

Chapter 9
-Key points distinguishing constructivism from teacher-centered classrooms
-First wave constructivism (Piaget), second wave constructivism (Vygotsky)
-Situated learning vs. transfer
-Inquiry learning
-Problem-based learning
-Issues in organizing cooperative learning groups
-Benefits and pitfalls of cooperative learning experiences
-Roles students can play in cooperative learning groups

Matching (four items): match the activity we did in class with the concept it demonstrated.