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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Intelligence
Negative correlation
Double blind study
Frequency distribution
2. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
Testing
Criticisms of Piaget
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Normal curve
3. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Jean Block
Preoperational stage
Educational psychology
Egocentric thinking
4. Young kids that talk to themselves
Industry vs inferiority
Intelligence
Think at different ages
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
5. 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
6. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Experimental and control
Positive correlation
Preoperational stage
Role confusions
7. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Double blind study
Experimental methods
Contributions of Piaget
Identity foreclosure
8. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Educational psychology
4 times - successful suicide
Preoperational stage
Laray Pee case
9. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Frequency distribution
Experimental methods
Identity foreclosure
Organization and adaptation
10. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
BITCH test
Egocentric thinking
Identity diffusion
Invariant
11. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Late maturing boys
Reversibility
Sensorimotor stage
Preoperational stage
12. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)
Sandra bem
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Industry vs inferiority
Testing
13. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Control variable
Early and late maturation
Egocentric thinking
Piaget
14. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________
Psychosocial moratorium
Formal operation stage
Initiative vs guilt
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
15. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?
Sensorimotor stage
Different types of tests and surverys
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Conservation
16. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
Psychoscoial moratorium
Private speech
Identity foreclosure
Identity diffusion
17. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Preoperational stage
Correlation
Critical period
Jean Block
18. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
Late maturing boys
Normal curve
Negative correlation
Standardized testing
19. Psychologists observe events as they naturally occur in the real world; observe behavior w/out influencing it; used for ethical reasons(ex: child that was being physically abused as a child then became a criminal ) by observing criminals and seeing H
Naturalistic observation
Post conventional morality
Experimental and control
Hartshore and May
20. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities
Naturalistic observations
6 hour retardets
Psychoscoial moratorium
Role confusions
21. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Preconventional morality
Validity
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
22. What are the two types of adaptation?
Erikson's criticisms
Assimilation and accommodation
Universal
Beverly Fargot
23. 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
Double blind study
Arthur JEnsen
Jean Block
Dependent variable
24. 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
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Early maturing girls
Identity vs role confusion
Carol Gilligan
25. 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
Conservation
Experimental methods
6 hour retardets
Negative correlation
26. 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
Stanine scores
Invariant
Validity
Reliability
27. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
Grade equivalency score
Early maturing boys
Correlation
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
28. 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
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Preoperational stage
Beverly Fagot
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
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
Universal
Beverly Fargot
Scheme
Industry vs inferiority
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
Early maturing boys
Percentile score
Late maturing boys
Stages
31. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Norm reference test
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Think at different ages
Identity achievement
32. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Sandra bem
Parpain
Late maturing girls
Different types of tests and surverys
33. 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 )
Conventional morality
Industry vs inferiority
Validity
Pase vs Hannon
34. 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
Contributions of Piaget
Parallel play
'storm and stress'
Initiative vs guilt
35. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports
Think at different ages
Grade equivalency score
Reliability and validity
Clinical method
36. 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
Independent variable
Jane Mercer
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Emotional intelligence
37. Are the scores repeatable?
Standardized scores
Experimental methods
Invariant
Reliability
38. 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
Carol Gilligan
Jane Mercer
Concrete-operational stage
Early maturing girls
39. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Percentile score
Vygotsky
Reliability and validity
40. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Frequency distribution
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Jane Mercer
Critical period
41. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence
42. 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.
'storm and stress'
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Industry vs inferiority
Lorenz - imprinting
43. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Validity
Normal curve
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Control variable
44. 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)
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Beverly Fagot
Carol Gilligan
Reliability and validity
45. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
1st year ; development of trust
Organizations
Learned helplessness
Negative correlation
46. 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.
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Negative correlation
Decentration
Naturalistic observations
47. 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
Early maturing boys
Naturalistic observation
Jean Block
Normal curve
48. One of the approaches Piaget used was the _____ - he would pose a problem then he would ask the child a question and based on the answer he got he would ask the child additional questions
Clinical method
Initiative vs guilt
Carol Gilligan
Positive correlation
49. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
Stages
Naturalistic observations
Kohlberg
1st year ; development of trust
50. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______
Universal
Private speech
Educational psychology
Formal operation stage