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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. What happened in the past






2. 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)


3. _____ had a huge impact on






4. The sens of balance is known as ________________






5. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?






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






7. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score






8. 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






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






10. Based on the standard deviation






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






12. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






13. What are the two types of adaptation?






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Define intelligence






21. When a baby begins to attach to their mother -he did research with ducks. He would take the place of the mother duck during this time of imprinting and the ducks would imprint to him.






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






33. Based on the child themselves - if they reach a certain level they pass ( ex: praxis and leap test) ; measures how well a student has achieved specific objectives






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. 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






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






37. 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)






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






39. 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






40. 1. some people feel as though he may have underestimated the ability of kids 2. he talked about there being 4 distinct stages of development 3. some critics focused too much on what children couldnt do rather than what they could do 4. some think t






41. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






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






44. 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






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


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






47. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






48. 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






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






50. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.