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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight
Percentile score
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Private speech
Object permanence
2. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
Pase vs Hannon
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Early maturing girls
3. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Lorenz - imprinting
Scheme
'storm and stress'
Testing
4. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
1st year ; development of trust
Private speech
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
5. 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
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Standard score (derived score)
Jean Block
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
6. Piaget believes a child's moral reasoning is tied to their ________; because the 6 year old child has not mastered decentration yet so he can only focus on 1 thing at a time and he focused on the size of the stain so the child with the bigger stain w
Cognitive reasoning
Positive correlation
Psychosocial moratorium
Decentration
7. 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
Standard score (derived score)
Validity
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Emotional intelligence
8. 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
Assimilation
Early and late maturation
Vygotsky beliefs
Critical period
9. 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
Zone of Proximal Distance
Egocentric thinking
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
Individual case study
10. 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
Negative correlation
Educational psychology
Identity vs role confusion
Carol Gilligan
11. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Correlation
Reliability and validity
Identity vs role confusion
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
12. Behavior being measured in experiment
Dependent variable
Experimental and control
Naturalistic observations
Critical period
13. 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
Reliability and validity
Different types of tests and surverys
Nature vs nurture
Assimilation and accommodation
14. 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
Erikson's contributions
Frequency distribution
Early maturing girls
Negative correlation
15. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
'storm and stress'
Psychoscoial moratorium
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
Stanine scores
16. 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)
Late maturing boys
Preconventional morality
Cognitive reasoning
1st year ; development of trust
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.
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Concrete-operational stage
Dependent variable
Lorenz - imprinting
18. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
6 hour retardets
1st year ; development of trust
Concrete-operational stage
Percentile score
19. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Critical period
Standardized testing
20. Are the scores repeatable?
Reliability
Adaptation
Beverly Fargot
Educational psychology
21. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Criticisms of Piaget
Language
Educational psychology
James Marcia
22. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
Criticisms of Piaget
Invariant
Accommodation
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
23. More confident and more outgoing
Jane Mercer
Late maturing girls
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Erikson's criticisms
24. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Vygotsky beliefs
Assimilation
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Initiative vs guilt
25. 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.
Parallel play
Correlation
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Naturalistic observations
26. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
Parpain
Pase vs Hannon
Initiative vs guilt
Identity diffusion
27. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one
Preoperational stage
Control variable
Industry vs inferiority
Naturalistic observations
28. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Educational psychology
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Invariant
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
29. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Language
Zone of Proximal Distance
Adaptation
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
30. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal
Jane Mercer
Nature vs nurture
Naturalistic observations
Negative correlation
31. 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
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Initiative vs guilt
Erikson's criticisms
Experimental methods
32. Based on the standard deviation
Beverly Fagot
Assimilation
Beverly Fargot
Standard score (derived score)
33. 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
Moral development
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Private speech
Independent variable
34. Believes kids benefit more when they interact with kids people who are more skilled than they are; believes that language is critical for cognitive development to occur
Preoperational stage
Vygotsky beliefs
Sensorimotor stage
Erikson's criticisms
35. 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
Correlation
Conservation
Clinical method
Vygotsky beliefs
36. 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
Preoperational stage
Clinical method
Beverly Fargot
Educational psychology
37. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Normal curve
Positive correlation
Percentile score
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
38. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time
Normal curve
Decentration
Adaptation
Dependent variable
39. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Universal
Object permanence
Different types of tests and surverys
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
40. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Adaptation
Clinical method
Early and late maturation
Language
41. What are the two types of adaptation?
Preconventional morality
James Marcia
Early maturing girls
Assimilation and accommodation
42. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
Late maturing boys
Educational psychology
Universal
Preoperational stage
43. 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
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Hartshore and May
Percentile score
Parpain
44. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Piaget
Arthur JEnsen
James Marcia
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
45. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities
Reliability
Psychoscoial moratorium
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Stanine scores
46. 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
Early maturing boys
Dependent variable
Different types of tests and surverys
Double blind study
47. 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
Stages
Preoperational stage
Nature vs nurture
Double blind study
48. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
Pase vs Hannon
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Parpain
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
49. 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
Identity vs role confusion
Naturalistic observations
Experimental methods
Sensorimotor stage
50. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Identity foreclosure
Control variable
6 hour retardets
Dependent variable
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