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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. _____ had a huge impact on






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






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






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






8. 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






9. A tendency we all have to adapt or adjust to our environment; the child uses intellectual processes to transform them so they can use them for new experiences






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






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






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






13. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






14. 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 )






15. 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






16. More confident and more outgoing






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






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

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19. 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






20. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






22. 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






23. Said no with respect to any native born english speak child ( if you were born in this country and you speak english then it wont be bias against you)

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






25. Based on the standard deviation






26. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






27. 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






28. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






29. At a disadvantage - were popular with their peers and with boys but all things being equal they were likely to suffer from depression more likely to suffer from an eating disorder more likely to become suicidal ; gain weight earlier which is viewed a






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. 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.






36. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






37. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that






38. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






39. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






40. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






41. 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)






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






46. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression






47. 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






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






49. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards






50. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency