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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. Are the scores repeatable?






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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






12. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?






13. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






18. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






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






21. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






24. 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






25. 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.






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






27. 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)






28. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world

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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. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






31. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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)






36. Stages all happen in the same sequence






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






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






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

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






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






47. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






48. 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






49. 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






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






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