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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Conservation
Assimilation and accommodation
Validity
Standard score (derived score)
2. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Scheme
Erikson's criticisms
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
3. _____ had a huge impact on
Piaget
Reversibility
Assimilation
Lorenz - imprinting
4. 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
Sensorimotor stage
Initiative vs guilt
Identity achievement
Private speech
5. 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
Nature vs nurture
Double blind study
Private speech
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
6. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Frequency distribution
Reversibility
Testing
Individual case study
7. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority
8. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Educational psychology
Positive correlation
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
9. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________
Parallel play
Lorenz - imprinting
Assimilation
Psychosocial moratorium
10. 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
Jane Mercer
Identity vs role confusion
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Decentration
11. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Organizations
Beverly Fargot
Piaget
Correlation
12. What are 5 different types of testing?
Identity vs role confusion
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Psychosocial moratorium
Standard score (derived score)
13. 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)
Late maturing boys
Identity vs role confusion
Preoperational stage
Normal curve
14. 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
Experimental methods
Reliability and validity
Testing
Initiative vs guilt
15. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
Control variable
Standardized testing
Kohlberg
Invariant
16. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Psychoscoial moratorium
Lorenz - imprinting
Early maturing girls
17. 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.
Naturalistic observations
Invariant
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Reliability
18. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Negative correlation
Laray Pee case
Correlation
Standard score (derived score)
19. 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)
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
Carol Gilligan
Psychoscoial moratorium
Individual case study
20. 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
Conventional morality
1st year ; development of trust
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Concrete-operational stage
21. 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)
22. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
Identity diffusion
Jane Mercer
Beverly Fargot
Positive correlation
23. The sens of balance is known as ________________
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Naturalistic observations
Positive correlation
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
24. 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
Preoperational stage
Egocentric thinking
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Object permanence
25. 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
Clinical method
Preoperational stage
Organizations
Invariant
26. 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
Vygotsky beliefs
Educational psychology
Late maturing girls
Stages
27. Define intelligence
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
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
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
28. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Think at different ages
Adaptation
Conventional morality
Vygotsky
29. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development
Language
Clinical method
Early maturing boys
Post conventional morality
30. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)
Validity
Decentration
Reliability
Sandra bem
31. Based on the standard deviation
Norm reference test
Late maturing boys
Double blind study
Standard score (derived score)
32. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Hartshore and May
Critical period
Piaget
33. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Testing
Formal operation stage
Identity achievement
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
34. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Parallel play
Initiative vs guilt
Frequency distribution
Egocentric thinking
35. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Validity
Carol Gilligan
'storm and stress'
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
36. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
6 hour retardets
Zone of Proximal Distance
4 times - successful suicide
Reliability
37. Factor being manipulated in experimental group
Experimental methods
Independent variable
Jane Mercer
Dependent variable
38. 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
Educational psychology
Jean Block
Conservation
Stanine scores
39. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Jean Block
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Identity diffusion
40. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
Intelligence
Dependent variable
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
Kohlberg
41. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Egocentric thinking
Preoperational stage
Organization and adaptation
Accommodation
42. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Assimilation
Preconventional morality
Laray Pee case
43. Stages all happen in the same sequence
Validity
Reliability and validity
Jane Mercer
Invariant
44. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight
Control variable
Early maturing girls
Object permanence
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
45. 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
Different types of tests and surverys
Stages
Standard score (derived score)
Sensorimotor stage
46. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
Jane Mercer
Conservation
Scheme
4 times - successful suicide
47. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Identity vs role confusion
Correlation
James Marcia
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
48. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Reliability and validity
Scheme
Role confusions
49. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Standardized scores
6 hour retardets
Double blind study
50. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Late maturing girls
Learned helplessness
Percentile score
Psychosocial moratorium