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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






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. 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






11. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






12. Behavior being measured in experiment






13. 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






14. 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






15. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






16. 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)






17. 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.






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






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






20. Are the scores repeatable?






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






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






23. More confident and more outgoing






24. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






25. 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.






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






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






28. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________






29. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






31. 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






32. Based on the standard deviation






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






39. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






41. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






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. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






49. Age of 12 to 15 years; during this stage the child will be going through adolescence and will develop a sense of ____ or _____ where they arent really sure how to behave or how to be accepted by other or who they are






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







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