Ed Psych Exam 2 Word Pool

Gender

The sociocultural dimensions of being female or male, not biological

Prejudice

An unjustified negative attitude toward an individual because of his/her membership in a group

Gender roles

Social expectations that prescribe how males and females should think, act, and feel

Interpersonal

Learner who is social by nature, tends to learn better in groups and judges learning by its potential use in helping others

Mastery

Learner who absorbs information concretely, processes it sequentially, and judges its value by its clarity and practicality

Discrimination

An unjustified, negative or harmful action toward a member of a group because the person belongs to that group

Self-Expressive

Learner who depends on feelings and emotions to form new ideas and products, and judges the value of learning products by their originality and aesthetics

Understanding

Learner who focuses on ideas and abstractions and learns by a process of questioning and reasoning