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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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






5. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






6. What are 5 different types of testing?






7. 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






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






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






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






12. 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)






13. 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






14. 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 )






15. 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






16. 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






17. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






18. _____ had a huge impact on






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






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






21. 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






22. The sens of balance is known as ________________






23. Most psychologists believe that intelligence is due to ___ ____; you cant prove which one is more or if they equal but they both play a role






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






25. 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






26. What happened in the past






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






28. 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.






29. 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






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






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


32. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






33. 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






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






35. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






36. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






37. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained






38. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






40. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






41. More confident and more outgoing






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






43. 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






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






45. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






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






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






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






50. 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