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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Frequency distribution
Vygotsky beliefs
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Naturalistic observation
2. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Arthur JEnsen
Identity diffusion
Adaptation
Double blind study
3. 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
Naturalistic observation
Early and late maturation
Nature vs nurture
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
4. The sens of balance is known as ________________
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Naturalistic observations
Zone of Proximal Distance
Vygotsky beliefs
5. 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
Private speech
Late maturing girls
Beverly Fargot
Piaget
6. 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
Vygotsky beliefs
Post conventional morality
Role confusions
Jane Mercer
7. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________
Moral development
BITCH test
Cognitive reasoning
Kohlberg
8. Factor being manipulated in experimental group
Kohlberg
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Grade equivalency score
Independent variable
9. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Independent variable
Early and late maturation
10. 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
Identity foreclosure
Contributions of Piaget
1st year ; development of trust
Preconventional morality
11. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
6 hour retardets
Industry vs inferiority
BITCH test
Positive correlation
12. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Preoperational stage
Identity foreclosure
Adaptation
Role confusions
13. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
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
Invariant
Preconventional morality
Late maturing girls
14. 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
Industry vs inferiority
Cognitive reasoning
Arthur JEnsen
Organizations
15. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
Early maturing boys
Stanine scores
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
16. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Testing
Different types of tests and surverys
Correlation
Reliability and validity
17. 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
Parallel play
Beverly Fagot
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
'storm and stress'
18. Stages all happen in the same sequence
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Identity diffusion
Early maturing boys
Invariant
19. What happened in the past
Jane Mercer
Standardized testing
Correlation
Initiative vs guilt
20. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Clinical method
Invariant
Parallel play
Preconventional morality
21. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
6 hour retardets
Zone of Proximal Distance
Normal curve
Frequency distribution
22. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Industry vs inferiority
Piaget
Preoperational stage
4 times - successful suicide
23. 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
Percentile score
Hartshore and May
Individual case study
Vygotsky beliefs
24. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Standard score (derived score)
Educational psychology
Pase vs Hannon
25. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Experimental methods
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
BITCH test
Grade equivalency score
26. 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
Dependent variable
Double blind study
Think at different ages
Conservation
27. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Percentile score
Clinical method
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Beverly Fagot
28. 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
Different types of tests and surverys
Naturalistic observation
Beverly Fargot
Identity achievement
29. 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
Preconventional morality
Criticisms of Piaget
Initiative vs guilt
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
30. 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
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Stages
1st year ; development of trust
Preoperational stage
31. 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
Adaptation
Zone of Proximal Distance
Double blind study
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
32. 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
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
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Standard score (derived score)
Early maturing girls
33. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
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
Parpain
Jean Block
Lorenz - imprinting
34. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Frequency distribution
Preoperational stage
Think at different ages
4 times - successful suicide
35. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
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
Correlation
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Piaget
36. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time
Late maturing boys
Conventional morality
Decentration
Independent variable
37. Young kids that talk to themselves
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Pase vs Hannon
Intelligence
Control variable
38. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared
Role confusions
Vygotsky
Standardized scores
Contributions of Piaget
39. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
James Marcia
Decentration
Experimental and control
40. 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
Parpain
Norm reference test
Identity achievement
Criterion (criteria) reference test
41. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Intelligence
Psychosocial moratorium
42. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Standardized testing
Independent variable
Carol Gilligan
Role confusions
43. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports
Grade equivalency score
Initiative vs guilt
Learned helplessness
Invariant
44. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Laray Pee case
Jane Mercer
Formal operation stage
Assimilation
45. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
Decentration
Sensorimotor stage
Scheme
Private speech
46. What are 5 different types of testing?
Post conventional morality
Intelligence
Conventional morality
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
47. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression
Stages
Validity
Learned helplessness
Frequency distribution
48. 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
Concrete-operational stage
Identity diffusion
Jane Mercer
Invariant
49. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Jean Block
Arthur JEnsen
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Reliability
50. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Individual case study
Educational psychology
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