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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






3. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






4. 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






5. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






6. 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






7. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






8. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






9. What happened in the past






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






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






12. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






22. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






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






24. 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






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






26. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






28. Define intelligence






29. 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)






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






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






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






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

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






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






36. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






37. Did research and used moral dellima stories like Kohlberg to compare males to females; discovered women showed more care/concern; men experience more of a feeling of justice being served






38. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






40. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. 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 )






47. 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






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






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






50. 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