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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. The purpose of a ____ is to separate the performance of individuals so that there is a distribution of scores from the highest to the lowest score






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






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






5. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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






10. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






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






13. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes






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






15. Are the scores repeatable?






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






17. 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






18. What happened in the past






19. 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






20. 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)






21. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






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






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






24. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. Age 6 to 11 years; during this stage the child begins school; if they are sucsessful in school they develop a sense of accomplishment ; these feelings may stay with a child throughout their entire life






30. 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






31. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






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






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






34. 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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35. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






42. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






43. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






45. 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






46. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen






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






48. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






49. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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