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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






2. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment






3. When the experimenter or the subject dont know which group they are in ; helps to avoid experimental bias and certain kinds of treatment that may change subjects behavior






4. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight






5. Define intelligence






6. One individual is studied in dept for a long period of time (situations: you would use this - people in war - murder's - serial killers - multiple personalities)(children with skills to advanced for their age)






7. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






8. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one






9. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






10. 20 and on up if it happens at all; only a small proportion of adults get to this level; these peoplea re able to understand the moral principles behind the rules of society






11. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.






12. The purpose of a ____ is to separate the performance of individuals so that there is a distribution of scores from the highest to the lowest score






13. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score






14. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






15. Most psychologists believe that intelligence is due to ___ ____; you cant prove which one is more or if they equal but they both play a role






16. 1. some people feel as though he may have underestimated the ability of kids 2. he talked about there being 4 distinct stages of development 3. some critics focused too much on what children couldnt do rather than what they could do 4. some think t






17. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this






18. Did research and used moral dellima stories like Kohlberg to compare males to females; discovered women showed more care/concern; men experience more of a feeling of justice being served






19. At any point in a child's development there are problems that the child is just on the verge of being able to solve by them but they dont have quite enough skills to solve them themselves; however - if they are given assistance/guidance they are ofte






20. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






21. Compare an individuals performance to that of his or her peers ; 1. they are objective 2. have predetermined answers 3. compare a student's performance to the performance of others 4. the performance is evaluated in terms of norms






22. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






23. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)






24. More confident and more outgoing






25. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites






26. Being able to realize that properties can stay the same in spite of a change in appearance ; what he found from his study was children under the age of 6 said that there was more water in beaker 1 than beaker 3 (even though it was the same amount of






27. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount






28. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






29. Age 6 to 11 years; during this stage the child begins school; if they are sucsessful in school they develop a sense of accomplishment ; these feelings may stay with a child throughout their entire life






30. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






31. What are the two types of adaptation?






32. Describing relationships between two factors is a correlation: a statistical description of how closely two variables are related. They can range from -1.00 to +1.00.






33. New experiences that fit an existing scheme ; a child sees a ew type of ball and realizes it a ball - different from his ball but understands its still a ball






34. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






35. Age 4 to 5 years; during this stage the child beings to learn language ; see alot of exploration from the child ; this initiative to explore will be encouraged if the child doesnt feel guilty






36. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?






37. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen






38. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






39. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






40. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






41. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________






42. Goes from birth to about the age of 2 years - during this stage schemes are developed primarily through sensory and motor activities ; around the age of 6 to 8 months the child develops an important cognitive milestone object permanence






43. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else






44. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






45. Refers to a persons ability to monitor their own and other peoples feelings and to use this information to guide their thinking and their actions ; some people say this refers more to a personality trait






46. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






47. When a baby begins to attach to their mother -he did research with ducks. He would take the place of the mother duck during this time of imprinting and the ducks would imprint to him.






48. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______






49. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?






50. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?