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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






3. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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






6. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment






7. What happened in the past






8. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






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






10. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence

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11. 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






12. 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






13. 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






14. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






15. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






21. Behavior being measured in experiment






22. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






23. 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 )






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. What are the two types of adaptation?






38. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






39. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






40. 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)






41. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






48. 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






49. 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






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







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