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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?






2. 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






3. New experiences that fit an existing scheme ; a child sees a ew type of ball and realizes it a ball - different from his ball but understands its still a ball






4. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






5. 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






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






7. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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

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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. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






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






13. 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






14. Based on the child themselves - if they reach a certain level they pass ( ex: praxis and leap test) ; measures how well a student has achieved specific objectives






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






16. What are 5 different types of testing?






17. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






18. 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






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






20. Age of 12 to 15 years; during this stage the child will be going through adolescence and will develop a sense of ____ or _____ where they arent really sure how to behave or how to be accepted by other or who they are






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






22. Based on the standard deviation






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. The sens of balance is known as ________________






31. 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






32. 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






33. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






34. 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






35. 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






36. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






37. Define intelligence






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






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






40. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






41. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?






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






43. 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






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






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






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






47. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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

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49. 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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50. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities