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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. Where is this new experience causes a change in an existing scheme ; child may have to modify this scheme (ex: john lenon's child adding a new idea of what a court is )
Late maturing girls
Universal
Accommodation
Jane Mercer
2. Define intelligence
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Language
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
3. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Educational psychology
Invariant
Beverly Fargot
Experimental methods
4. 2 to about 7 years; during this stage language develops at a rapid rate - the child no longer thinks as images but in words; increase in terms of language but the way the child thinks is not yet logical
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Preoperational stage
Adaptation
Independent variable
5. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Conservation
Organization and adaptation
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
6. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
Identity vs role confusion
Correlation
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Sandra bem
7. 9 to about 20 years old ; this group he says follows the rules of society because they are the rules of society ; follow the rules to impress other people (like parents and teachers and to show their respect for authority )
Erikson's criticisms
Hartshore and May
Conventional morality
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
8. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Laray Pee case
Conservation
Organization and adaptation
Role confusions
9. Piaget believes a child's moral reasoning is tied to their ________; because the 6 year old child has not mastered decentration yet so he can only focus on 1 thing at a time and he focused on the size of the stain so the child with the bigger stain w
Carol Gilligan
Invariant
Cognitive reasoning
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
10. By the age of 9 _________ disappears because they reach the cognitive level where this form of speech does not need to guide their behavior or thinking any more
Emotional intelligence
Contributions of Piaget
Normal curve
Private speech
11. _____ had a huge impact on
Piaget
Dependent variable
Correlation
Educational psychology
12. 1. 1st person that got us looking at the fact that kids develop cognitively in stages 2. got us to realize that kids think differently from each other and from adults 3. got us to realize that qualitative changes in thinking happen as a child goes
Contributions of Piaget
Early maturing boys
Initiative vs guilt
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
13. 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
Formal operation stage
Cognitive reasoning
Individual case study
Nature vs nurture
14. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are
Jane Mercer
Standardized testing
Think at different ages
Vygotsky
15. Found that parents tend to encourage their daughters to be dependent ; she suggests that parents and teachers encourage them to figure the problem out their selves before they help
Zone of Proximal Distance
Contributions of Piaget
Beverly Fargot
Identity foreclosure
16. These individuals often times have more feelings of inferiority - not as popular as the ..... typically - more likely to engage in attention getting behavior (silly goofy stuff)
Emotional intelligence
Preconventional morality
Late maturing boys
Preoperational stage
17. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development
Stages
Positive correlation
Language
Intelligence
18. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
BITCH test
Identity diffusion
Formal operation stage
19. About 7 to 11 years old; this stage is a major turning point in a child's cognitive development ; child's thinking begins to resemble that of an adult more than that of a child ; child is able to utilize conservation - decentration - and reversibilit
Concrete-operational stage
Educational psychology
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Correlation
20. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Parallel play
Dependent variable
Validity
21. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Correlation
James Marcia
Private speech
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
22. More confident and more outgoing
Late maturing girls
Identity diffusion
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Criterion (criteria) reference test
23. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Normal curve
Sensorimotor stage
Reliability
Assimilation and accommodation
24. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Critical period
Emotional intelligence
Control variable
Lorenz - imprinting
25. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression
Learned helplessness
Role confusions
Adaptation
Scheme
26. 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
Stages
Kohlberg
Educational psychology
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
27. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Sensorimotor stage
Object permanence
Moral development
28. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______
Stages
Piaget
Beverly Fagot
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
29. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?
Educational psychology
Naturalistic observations
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Identity foreclosure
30. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
Educational psychology
Jane Mercer
Dependent variable
Zone of Proximal Distance
31. Found that from an early age boys are encouraged to be competitive - to achieve - and to control the expression of their feelings; girls at an early age are encouraged to develop close relationhips - talk about their troubles - and show affection and
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Jean Block
Hartshore and May
Percentile score
32. 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
Criticisms of Piaget
Industry vs inferiority
Invariant
Role confusions
33. Based on the standard deviation
Standard score (derived score)
Early maturing boys
Naturalistic observation
Standardized scores
34. 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
Universal
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Reliability
Emotional intelligence
35. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Parallel play
Beverly Fagot
Beverly Fargot
Adaptation
36. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Negative correlation
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
37. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Formal operation stage
6 hour retardets
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Sandra bem
38. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal
Jane Mercer
Standardized testing
Correlation
Vygotsky beliefs
39. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Scheme
Educational psychology
Parpain
Identity foreclosure
40. 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.
Naturalistic observations
Conservation
Jane Mercer
Vygotsky
41. What are 5 different types of testing?
Late maturing girls
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
1st year ; development of trust
Late maturing boys
42. What are the two types of adaptation?
Jean Block
Assimilation and accommodation
Stages
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
43. 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
Educational psychology
Scheme
Conservation
Role confusions
44. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Post conventional morality
Formal operation stage
Think at different ages
Assimilation
45. 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
Late maturing girls
Sensorimotor stage
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
46. 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
Post conventional morality
Conservation
Formal operation stage
Reliability
47. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?
Late maturing girls
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Conventional morality
Assimilation
48. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Standardized scores
Experimental methods
Industry vs inferiority
49. Are the scores repeatable?
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Criticisms of Piaget
Zone of Proximal Distance
Reliability
50. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school
Assimilation and accommodation
Jane Mercer
Validity
Preoperational stage
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