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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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)






2. 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






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






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


5. 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






6. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






8. 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






9. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






10. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






11. What happened in the past






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. 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






24. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______






25. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






26. 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






27. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






29. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






31. 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






32. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






33. Based on the standard deviation






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






35. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






37. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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






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






42. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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


44. 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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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)






50. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment