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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. There are adolescents have made a career choice - and are pursuing this choice but this choice is tentative and they can be thrown back into crisis at any time






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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.






5. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






6. Psychologists observe events as they naturally occur in the real world; observe behavior w/out influencing it; used for ethical reasons(ex: child that was being physically abused as a child then became a criminal ) by observing criminals and seeing H






7. 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






8. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






9. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






10. Sometimes given on reports ; were developed back in WWII by air force psychologists and they were used to screen men for different kinds of programs






11. 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






12. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time






13. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






15. Stages all happen in the same sequence






16. 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






17. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






18. More confident and more outgoing






19. 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






20. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______






21. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






22. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






23. 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






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






25. Behavior being measured in experiment






26. 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 )






27. 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






28. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________






29. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






30. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class






31. One of the approaches Piaget used was the _____ - he would pose a problem then he would ask the child a question and based on the answer he got he would ask the child additional questions






32. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?






33. 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






34. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






35. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence

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36. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school






37. Based on the child themselves - if they reach a certain level they pass ( ex: praxis and leap test) ; measures how well a student has achieved specific objectives






38. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






39. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores






40. 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






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






42. Age of 12 to 15 years; during this stage the child will be going through adolescence and will develop a sense of ____ or _____ where they arent really sure how to behave or how to be accepted by other or who they are






43. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______






44. 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






45. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






46. Characterizes : only focus on one characteristic at a time - doesnt have reversibility - often times make decisions based on how things look and have a hard time realizing that an object can posses more than one property or that it can belong to seve






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






48. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






49. Young kids that talk to themselves






50. What happened in the past