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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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)






4. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






5. Are the scores repeatable?






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






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

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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






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






22. Age 6 to 11 years; during this stage the child begins school; if they are sucsessful in school they develop a sense of accomplishment ; these feelings may stay with a child throughout their entire life






23. 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






24. 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 )






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






26. Define intelligence






27. 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






28. 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






29. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.






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






32. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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)






39. 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






40. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






41. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






42. 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






43. 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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44. 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






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






46. _____ had a huge impact on






47. What happened in the past






48. 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






49. 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 )






50. Young kids that talk to themselves