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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Standard score (derived score)
Validity
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Psychoscoial moratorium
2. 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
Critical period
Preconventional morality
Cognitive reasoning
Decentration
3. 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
Invariant
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Preoperational stage
Negative correlation
4. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Reliability
Laray Pee case
Egocentric thinking
Emotional intelligence
5. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Stages
Jane Mercer
Educational psychology
4 times - successful suicide
6. More confident and more outgoing
Identity vs role confusion
Adaptation
Object permanence
Late maturing girls
7. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Parallel play
Psychoscoial moratorium
Think at different ages
Stages
8. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Experimental methods
Educational psychology
Invariant
Role confusions
9. The sens of balance is known as ________________
Invariant
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Preoperational stage
Standard score (derived score)
10. Define intelligence
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Invariant
Object permanence
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
11. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Standardized testing
Psychosocial moratorium
Cognitive reasoning
Adaptation
12. 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)
Control variable
Naturalistic observation
Educational psychology
Late maturing boys
13. 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
Formal operation stage
Preoperational stage
Independent variable
Sensorimotor stage
14. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Egocentric thinking
Preoperational stage
Moral development
Role confusions
15. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Jane Mercer
Double blind study
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Parallel play
16. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Clinical method
Moral development
Organizations
Role confusions
17. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______
Stages
Private speech
1st year ; development of trust
Preconventional morality
18. 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
Conservation
Conventional morality
Egocentric thinking
Laray Pee case
19. 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
Psychoscoial moratorium
Post conventional morality
Sandra bem
Nature vs nurture
20. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Standardized testing
Early maturing girls
Standard score (derived score)
21. 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
Percentile score
Early maturing boys
Naturalistic observations
Erikson's contributions
22. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Early maturing boys
Identity foreclosure
Stanine scores
Nature vs nurture
23. 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
Nature vs nurture
Emotional intelligence
Negative correlation
Hartshore and May
24. 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 )
Psychosocial moratorium
Vygotsky beliefs
Naturalistic observation
Accommodation
25. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Parallel play
Arthur JEnsen
'storm and stress'
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
26. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages
Kohlberg
Concrete-operational stage
Control variable
Different types of tests and surverys
27. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Role confusions
Experimental and control
Reversibility
Vygotsky
28. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
1st year ; development of trust
Preoperational stage
Identity diffusion
Correlation
29. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Early maturing boys
Testing
Concrete-operational stage
Psychoscoial moratorium
30. 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
Carol Gilligan
Correlation
Validity
Norm reference test
31. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Preoperational stage
Critical period
Early and late maturation
Organizations
32. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Grade equivalency score
33. 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
Object permanence
Experimental and control
Industry vs inferiority
Testing
34. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____
Organizations
Grade equivalency score
Industry vs inferiority
Reliability and validity
35. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Correlation
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Lorenz - imprinting
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
36. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
4 times - successful suicide
Frequency distribution
Nature vs nurture
37. _____ had a huge impact on
Piaget
Learned helplessness
Jane Mercer
Positive correlation
38. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
Identity vs role confusion
6 hour retardets
Beverly Fargot
Laray Pee case
39. 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)
Reliability and validity
6 hour retardets
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Preconventional morality
40. 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
Clinical method
Erikson's contributions
Organization and adaptation
Accommodation
41. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay
Conservation
Conventional morality
Moral development
Criticisms of Piaget
42. 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
Arthur JEnsen
Beverly Fargot
Vygotsky beliefs
Formal operation stage
43. 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
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Concrete-operational stage
Adaptation
Late maturing girls
44. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
6 hour retardets
James Marcia
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Educational psychology
45. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills
Erikson's contributions
Intelligence
James Marcia
Educational psychology
46. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?
Private speech
Late maturing boys
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
47. 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.
Experimental methods
Moral development
Invariant
Naturalistic observations
48. 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
Late maturing girls
1st year ; development of trust
Adaptation
Educational psychology
49. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
1st year ; development of trust
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Lorenz - imprinting
Experimental and control
50. 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 )
Conventional morality
Identity diffusion
6 hour retardets
Different types of tests and surverys
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