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Educational Psychology Basics

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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






7. Define intelligence






8. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






9. 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






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






11. 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)






12. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






13. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






15. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






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






17. 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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18. 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






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

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20. 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.






21. 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






22. 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






23. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






25. One of the approaches Piaget used was the _____ - he would pose a problem then he would ask the child a question and based on the answer he got he would ask the child additional questions






26. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






27. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this






28. 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)






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






37. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






38. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. Based on the child themselves - if they reach a certain level they pass ( ex: praxis and leap test) ; measures how well a student has achieved specific objectives






49. 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






50. 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