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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. 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
Concrete-operational stage
Criterion (criteria) reference test
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Percentile score
2. Said alot of kids were able to describe what they were supposed to do in hypothetial situation but when you place them in a real life situation they often engage in the opposite behavior ; final observation: kids know the rules - they just dont follo
Contributions of Piaget
Hartshore and May
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
Different types of tests and surverys
3. 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
Early maturing girls
Early and late maturation
Stages
Clinical method
4. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Stages
Parpain
Late maturing girls
Experimental methods
5. 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 )
Reliability and validity
Accommodation
Industry vs inferiority
Early maturing boys
6. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Correlation
Clinical method
Identity foreclosure
7. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Critical period
Vygotsky
Laray Pee case
Positive correlation
8. Young kids that talk to themselves
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Invariant
Different types of tests and surverys
Control variable
9. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
Frequency distribution
Hartshore and May
Parpain
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
10. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Pase vs Hannon
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Validity
11. 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)
Individual case study
Conservation
Industry vs inferiority
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
12. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Jean Block
Identity vs role confusion
Beverly Fagot
Frequency distribution
13. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
Norm reference test
Pase vs Hannon
Reversibility
Frequency distribution
14. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________
Pase vs Hannon
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Psychosocial moratorium
Early and late maturation
15. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
1st year ; development of trust
Psychosocial moratorium
Organization and adaptation
Clinical method
16. 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
Initiative vs guilt
Psychosocial moratorium
6 hour retardets
Reliability
17. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Emotional intelligence
Egocentric thinking
Jane Mercer
Organizations
18. 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
Assimilation and accommodation
Negative correlation
6 hour retardets
Naturalistic observation
19. More confident and more outgoing
Identity achievement
Beverly Fargot
Positive correlation
Late maturing girls
20. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Validity
Correlation
Stanine scores
21. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Reliability and validity
Correlation
Arthur JEnsen
Different types of tests and surverys
22. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Different types of tests and surverys
Preoperational stage
Invariant
Nature vs nurture
23. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
Language
Sandra bem
Organizations
24. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
Standardized testing
Validity
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Criterion (criteria) reference test
25. 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
Scheme
Pase vs Hannon
Assimilation
Psychosocial moratorium
26. 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
Organization and adaptation
Reliability and validity
Private speech
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
27. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do
Egocentric thinking
6 hour retardets
Jean Block
Jane Mercer
28. 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
Clinical method
6 hour retardets
Stanine scores
Jane Mercer
29. 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
Adaptation
6 hour retardets
Independent variable
Egocentric thinking
30. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay
Moral development
Reliability
Independent variable
Educational psychology
31. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal
Decentration
Industry vs inferiority
Jane Mercer
Adaptation
32. 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
Testing
Criticisms of Piaget
Moral development
Vygotsky beliefs
33. Define intelligence
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Decentration
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
34. Are the scores repeatable?
Egocentric thinking
Concrete-operational stage
Reliability
Educational psychology
35. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment
Preoperational stage
Naturalistic observation
Preconventional morality
Object permanence
36. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Piaget
Formal operation stage
Scheme
Percentile score
37. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______
Think at different ages
Vygotsky beliefs
Psychoscoial moratorium
Stages
38. 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.
Lorenz - imprinting
Accommodation
Scheme
6 hour retardets
39. What are 5 different types of testing?
6 hour retardets
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Percentile score
40. What are the two types of adaptation?
Assimilation and accommodation
Pase vs Hannon
Scheme
Preoperational stage
41. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Contributions of Piaget
Correlation
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Arthur JEnsen
42. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
Assimilation
Correlation
6 hour retardets
Criterion (criteria) reference test
43. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight
Vygotsky beliefs
Object permanence
BITCH test
Early maturing boys
44. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
Erikson's contributions
Universal
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Naturalistic observation
45. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Parallel play
Beverly Fargot
Nature vs nurture
Positive correlation
46. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Assimilation and accommodation
Control variable
Kohlberg
47. _____ had a huge impact on
Positive correlation
Conservation
Erikson's contributions
Piaget
48. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are
1st year ; development of trust
Experimental methods
Nature vs nurture
Vygotsky
49. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
Experimental and control
Preoperational stage
50. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Hartshore and May
Experimental methods
Concrete-operational stage
James Marcia