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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______






2. 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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. More confident and more outgoing






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






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






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






13. 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)






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






15. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






16. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






17. What are the two types of adaptation?






18. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






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






20. 1. there was no proof 2. his emphasis on identity crisis may have been from his own experiences in his life and he may have incorporated into a theory for everyone

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21. What happened in the past






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






29. 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






30. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression






31. Ages 2 to 3 ; during this stage kids may develop a sense of independence ; they begin to walk and potty train(learn self control) - 'NO!' Erikson believes this is the child developing a sense of _______(self confidence)






32. 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






33. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






35. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen






36. 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






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






38. 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.






39. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






40. 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






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. Behavior being measured in experiment






43. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






45. Are the scores repeatable?






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






47. Define intelligence






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






49. 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






50. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.