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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do






6. 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






7. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






8. 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






9. Are the scores repeatable?






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 1. there was no proof 2. his emphasis on identity crisis may have been from his own experiences in his life and he may have incorporated into a theory for everyone

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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






20. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






21. 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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22. 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






23. 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






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






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






26. Ages 2 to 3 ; during this stage kids may develop a sense of independence ; they begin to walk and potty train(learn self control) - 'NO!' Erikson believes this is the child developing a sense of _______(self confidence)






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






28. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






30. What are 5 different types of testing?






31. 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






32. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






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






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






35. 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






36. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






42. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






44. What happened in the past






45. 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)






46. 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






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






49. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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