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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)






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






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






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






5. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






7. Stages all happen in the same sequence






8. 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






9. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






11. Define intelligence






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. Are the scores repeatable?






17. 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






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






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






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






22. Based on the standard deviation






23. More confident and more outgoing






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






25. What are 5 different types of testing?






26. 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






27. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities






28. What happened in the past






29. 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.






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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 )






37. 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






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






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






40. Did research and found that parents tend to treat their boys and girls differently; they became negative when their daughters were overly physical or athletics ( parents were oten not aware of the negative feedback they gave when their daughter was i






41. 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.






42. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________






49. _____ had a huge impact on






50. Does it measure what it claims to measure?