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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Define intelligence






2. They were more self confident - had higher self esteem - more likely to be leaders and more likely to receive favorable comments from adults ; this happens because the look ... and are better athletes; the only bad thing is that they are more likely






3. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






5. What happened in the past






6. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






7. 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.






8. Stages all happen in the same sequence






9. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world

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






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






12. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






13. More confident and more outgoing






14. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.






15. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






17. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






19. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






24. 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






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






26. 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 )






27. 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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28. Relationship between two variables in which the high value of one is associated with a low value of the other; example - outside temperature and weight of clothes people wear






29. 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






30. Believes kids benefit more when they interact with kids people who are more skilled than they are; believes that language is critical for cognitive development to occur






31. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






37. 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






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






39. What are 5 different types of testing?






40. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority

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41. 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






42. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






43. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)






44. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )






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






46. 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)






47. 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






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






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






50. What are the two types of adaptation?