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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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






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






3. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority

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4. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






5. 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






6. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






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






9. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






19. Young kids that talk to themselves






20. Found that parents tend to encourage their daughters to be dependent ; she suggests that parents and teachers encourage them to figure the problem out their selves before they help






21. 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






22. 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)






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






24. 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






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






26. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






27. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






37. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






47. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






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






49. 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






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