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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






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






12. 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






13. 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)






14. What are the two types of adaptation?






15. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________






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






17. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






18. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______






32. 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






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. 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






35. Are the scores repeatable?






36. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






37. 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






38. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






39. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






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






41. 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






42. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






43. Based on the standard deviation






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






45. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






46. 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






47. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount






48. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______






49. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence

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