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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






2. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. Define intelligence






12. 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 )






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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 )






18. 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






19. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?






26. More confident and more outgoing






27. 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






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






29. What happened in the past






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






31. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






32. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






33. 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.






34. 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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35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. Compare an individuals performance to that of his or her peers ; 1. they are objective 2. have predetermined answers 3. compare a student's performance to the performance of others 4. the performance is evaluated in terms of norms






44. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained






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






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






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






48. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






50. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes