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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. More confident and more outgoing






2. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






8. 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)






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






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






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






12. 1. 1st person that got us looking at the fact that kids develop cognitively in stages 2. got us to realize that kids think differently from each other and from adults 3. got us to realize that qualitative changes in thinking happen as a child goes






13. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






14. Are the scores repeatable?






15. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






16. 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






17. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?






18. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






19. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






20. 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






21. 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






22. 1. there was no proof 2. his emphasis on identity crisis may have been from his own experiences in his life and he may have incorporated into a theory for everyone

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






24. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?






25. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






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






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






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






30. 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)






31. At a disadvantage - were popular with their peers and with boys but all things being equal they were likely to suffer from depression more likely to suffer from an eating disorder more likely to become suicidal ; gain weight earlier which is viewed a






32. 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






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






34. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






35. 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






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

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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






42. What happened in the past






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






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

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47. 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






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






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