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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. 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






2. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






3. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






9. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






15. 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






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






17. 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)






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






19. 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






20. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






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






22. 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






23. Define intelligence






24. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






25. 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






26. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment






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






28. 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)






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






30. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency






31. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






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. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






34. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






35. What are the two types of adaptation?






36. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that






37. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






39. 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






40. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






41. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?






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






43. What happened in the past






44. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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.






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






50. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class







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