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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






2. 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 )






3. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






4. Stages all happen in the same sequence






5. 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)






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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






13. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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






16. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






22. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






23. Psychologists observe events as they naturally occur in the real world; observe behavior w/out influencing it; used for ethical reasons(ex: child that was being physically abused as a child then became a criminal ) by observing criminals and seeing H






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






25. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. A tendency we all have to adapt or adjust to our environment; the child uses intellectual processes to transform them so they can use them for new experiences






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






33. 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






34. What are the two types of adaptation?






35. What happened in the past






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






37. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






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






40. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






41. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






42. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. At a disadvantage - were popular with their peers and with boys but all things being equal they were likely to suffer from depression more likely to suffer from an eating disorder more likely to become suicidal ; gain weight earlier which is viewed a






50. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)