Education Psychology

TABLE OF CONTENT

DEFINITION AND IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 3

INDIVIDUAL VERSUS GROUP IQ TESTING 3

PIAGET’S THEORY ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 4

SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TREM EFFECTS OF STEREOTYPE THREAT 6

SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY 6

GUIDELINES FOR GAINING AND MAITAINING ATTENTION 7

CREATIVITY 8

FIVE COMMON CONDITIONS OF CONSTRUCTIVISM 8

MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS 9

HANDLING UNDESIRABLE BEHAVIOURS AND HOW TO GO ABOUT IMPROVING CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT 10

MORAL REASONING 18

REFERENCES 21

Section A FACTUAL QUESTIONS

QUESTION 1

DEFINITION AND IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Woolfolk, A. (2013: 12) defines Educational psychology as a discipline that is concerned with teaching and learning processes; applies the methods and theories of psychology and has its own as well.

The importance of educational psychology includes:

* To study teaching and learning situations

* Application of teaching and learning principles.

QUESTION 2

INDIVIDUAL VERSUS GROUP IQ TESTING

There are basically two types of intelligence tests, those administered to individuals and those administered to groups. Those administered to individuals are reffered to as individuals IQ tests and those administered to groups as group IQ tests.

The two main individual intelligence tests include Stanford–Binet intelligence tests and Wechester tests. Individual intelligence tests such as Stanford-Binet has to be administered to one student at a time by trained psychologist and it takes about two hours (Woolfolk: 125). The tests involve various verbal and non-verbal sub-tests which can be combined to give an overall IQ, but which can also provide valuable separate subtest scores and measures based on the behavioural responses of the child to the test items [Online] Available http://www.wilderdom.com/intelligence/IQIndividualGroupTesting.html

Group intelligence tests involve a series of different problems, and are...