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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






2. _____ had a huge impact on






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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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. 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






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






15. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






16. 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.






17. Young kids that talk to themselves






18. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






19. Are the scores repeatable?






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






21. Stages all happen in the same sequence






22. 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)






23. 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)






24. What happened in the past






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






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






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






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






29. More confident and more outgoing






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






31. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






32. Based on the standard deviation






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. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






35. 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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36. What are 5 different types of testing?






37. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






38. Said alot of kids were able to describe what they were supposed to do in hypothetial situation but when you place them in a real life situation they often engage in the opposite behavior ; final observation: kids know the rules - they just dont follo






39. 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






40. 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






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






42. Found that from an early age boys are encouraged to be competitive - to achieve - and to control the expression of their feelings; girls at an early age are encouraged to develop close relationhips - talk about their troubles - and show affection and






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






44. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. 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