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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






3. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






5. 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.






6. Young kids that talk to themselves






7. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






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






19. 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






20. Are the scores repeatable?






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






22. 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 )






23. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards






24. The purpose of a ____ is to separate the performance of individuals so that there is a distribution of scores from the highest to the lowest score






25. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






26. 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






27. More confident and more outgoing






28. 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






29. Behavior being measured in experiment






30. 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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. Stages all happen in the same sequence






35. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






36. 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)






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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 )






42. 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






43. What are the two types of adaptation?






44. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?






45. What happened in the past






46. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






47. What are 5 different types of testing?






48. 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






49. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities






50. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?