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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. What happened in the past






5. 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






6. Are the scores repeatable?






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. What are 5 different types of testing?






11. 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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12. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






13. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. Young kids that talk to themselves






19. _____ had a huge impact on






20. 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






21. 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






22. More confident and more outgoing






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






24. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






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






28. 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)






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






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






31. What are the two types of adaptation?






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. 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






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






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






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






41. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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