EdPsych 401 Blog Post 10: Student Generated Questions for Chapter 3

1.  Briefly analyze the difference between authoritative parenting and authoritarian parenting. [p. 63] (Analyze)

2. What is an "imaginary audience"? [p. 71] (Remember)

EdPsych 401 Blog Post 9: Student Generated Questions for Chapter 2

1. Briefly evaluate your own life in the terms of Bronfenbrenner's Theory of Environmental to Influences.  For example, what do you believe are your "family" influences, "neighborhood and community" influences, and "state/province and country" influences? [p. 22] (Evaluate)

2. Say that you are sitting across from a young child.  Between you two, on the table, are three different beakers.  Two of the beakers are the same size, with the same amount of water in them; the third beaker is much taller than the other two, and empty.  You ask the child, "Do both of these glasses have the same amount of water in them?" and you point to the two same-sized beakers with the same amount of water.  The child answers yes.  Then, you pour all of the water from one beaker into the third, tallest beaker, and then ask the child, "Which container has the most water now?"  The child points to the tallest beaker.  What stage of Piaget's cognitive development would you say this child is in? [p. 29-34] (Remember)

EdPsych 401 Blog Post 8: Student Generated Questions for Chapter 5

1. Review the information regarding cognitive styles and dispositions Ormrod provides on pp. 147-149 and identify at least one way in which cognitive styles and dispositions are similar and one way they are different. (Evaluate)

2. In 1975, Congress passed a law that guarantees certain educational rights to students with disabilities, including the right to (1) a free and appropriate education, (2) fair and nondiscriminatory evaluation, (3) education in the least restrictive environment as possible, (4) an individualized education program, and (5) due process.  What is the name of this law? (Remembering)