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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






2. What are the two types of adaptation?






3. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






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






5. 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)






6. 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






7. 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






8. Behavior being measured in experiment






9. 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






10. 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






11. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






13. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight






14. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






15. 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

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16. 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)






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






18. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






19. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






21. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






23. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






24. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






25. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






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. 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






29. 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 )






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






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






32. What happened in the past






33. 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






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






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






36. Found that parents tend to encourage their daughters to be dependent ; she suggests that parents and teachers encourage them to figure the problem out their selves before they help






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






43. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.






44. 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






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

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47. _____ had a huge impact on






48. 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






49. 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.






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