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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






2. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






3. 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 )






4. 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






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






6. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






7. 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.






8. 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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9. 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






10. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






11. 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)






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






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






14. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






15. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school






16. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________






17. 20 and on up if it happens at all; only a small proportion of adults get to this level; these peoplea re able to understand the moral principles behind the rules of society






18. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






19. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






21. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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. 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






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






25. 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






26. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. Compare an individuals performance to that of his or her peers ; 1. they are objective 2. have predetermined answers 3. compare a student's performance to the performance of others 4. the performance is evaluated in terms of norms






33. 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






34. 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






35. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






36. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






38. 9 to about 20 years old ; this group he says follows the rules of society because they are the rules of society ; follow the rules to impress other people (like parents and teachers and to show their respect for authority )






39. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






40. Are the scores repeatable?






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






42. 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






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






44. What are the two types of adaptation?






45. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority

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






47. More confident and more outgoing






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






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






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