Learning Unit 1: Psychology of Education and Adolescent Development

Vocabulary flashcards covering Learning Unit 1 topics including the stages of adolescence, definitions and scope of Psychology of Education, developmental stages, and the conditions of learning.

Early Adolescence

The developmental stage covering ages 10 to 14 years old, corresponding to Grade 5 to Grade 9.

Middle Adolescence

The developmental stage covering ages 15 to 17 years old, corresponding to Grade 9 to Grade 12.

Late Adolescence

The developmental stage covering ages 18 to 24 years old, representing post-high school and early adulthood.

Addescere

The Latin verb meaning 'growing up' or 'to grow to adulthood', from which the word 'adolescence' is derived.

Psychology of Education (Woolfolk, Hughes and Walkup)

Defined as the study of how psychological theories and research inform and support the work of educational professionals working across the whole range of teaching and learning settings, including child development.

Psychology of Education (O'Donnell and Levin)

Defined as the development and application of psychological principles to education.

Nature and Scope of Psychology of Education

The application of psychological findings to understand and improve educational practices, acting as an enabler for teachers and serving as a rigorous scientific study of an individual's life stages from birth to death.

Prominent Content Areas of Psychology of Education

Major topics including classroom achievement, learning and memory, effective/emotional contributors (especially motivation), and cognition/reasoning.

3R's

Academic subjects consisting of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.

Subject Matter Knowledge

A domain of teacher knowledge that includes common content knowledge and knowledge at the mathematical horizon.

Specialized Content Knowledge

Knowledge requiring teachers to be experts on the subject they teach and to have pedagogical knowledge of how to best teach a subject to a specific group of learners.

Human Lifespan Stages

The sequence of developmental stages divided into: 1) Infancy, 2) Toddler, 3) Childhood, 4) Adolescence, and 5) Adult.

Physical Development

Changes in the body, muscles, and movements, encompassing sexual maturation (such as breast development, voice deepening, and hair growth), motor development, and psychomotor abilities.

Psychomotor Abilities

The skills involved in how a child learns to control their body, progressing from holding their head up to writing their name.

Cognitive Development

The growth of thinking processes and reasoning, referring to the mental processes of learners and how they give meaning to their world through intelligence, aptitude, problem-solving, and memory.

Social Development

The process of socializing and interacting where primary connections shift from parents and family to the peer group during adolescent years, making peer influence more evident.

Moral Development

An individual's ability to differentiate between right and wrong, behave appropriately in a particular situation, and be educated to make responsible choices.

Spiritual Development

Development relating to fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of life, raising awareness of natural, innate spirituality without dependency on religious affiliation.

Learning

A lifelong process occurring throughout a human's lifespan that involves assigning new meaning to reality and unlearning wrong assumptions, beyond classroom instruction.

Three Conditions of Learning

The three essential conditions that influence adolescent learning: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor.

Cognitive Condition

The learner's ability to attain knowledge using mental/intellectual processes, involving typical conditions such as attention and observation, intelligence, aptitude, sensory integration, thinking and reasoning, memory, and previous knowledge.

Adolescent Learning Event Diagram

A conceptual model demonstrating how Conditions of Learning interact with Adolescent Learning to produce Outcomes of the Learning Event within an Actual Learning Event.