Educational and Cognitive Psychology

07-18 -12

Educational and Cognitive Psychology

1. Recent advances in neuroscience have influenced all areas of psychology. Consider some of the developments in brain research and how they inform the field of educational psychology. Then, in your own words, describe what brain-based education means. In reference to the Learning Resources, what are the implications of brain-based education in the classroom or in other learning settings?

a. The recent advances in neuroscience, the science of the brain have experienced a major milestone with Scientist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago due to improvements in technology and data analysis. Scientist will be able to decode how neurons (cells) communicate with each other and how rapid restoring an injured spinal cord or brain injury victim.

b. Brain-based education is associated with human language being the unique facility of the mind. The ability to understand and practice oral and written language is fundamental to academic achievement and attainment. Children who experience difficulties with oral language raise significant challenges to core deficits with oral language. Children who experience problems with literacy, numbers, behavior and peer relations have difficulty if language and education is not sub Early identification and intervention to address these difficulties, as well as identification of the ways in which learning environments can support atypical language development are essential.

2. Yielding measurable results that can be replicated is both an important and sought-after benefit of conducting and applying research in educational psychology. Choose an educational question or topic you would like to research. Then, identify two different types of research studies (e.g., descriptive, experimental, microgenetic) you might use to investigate this topic, and explain the differences between the two. As applied to your topic, what knowledge or information would you hope to gain from each kind of study, and how would it inform the processes of teaching and learning?

a. How does knowledge develop in children in an educational setting? The two types of research study that brings curiosity and thought is descriptive and experimental research. Descriptive research studies would study the implementation of new instructional methods by comparing its use in three different classrooms. This type of researcher describes two or more sets of subjects. Most importantly, descriptive research design aims to observe and describe a subject without affecting its normal actions.

Secondly, experimental research is a systematic and scientific approach to research

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