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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






2. Define intelligence






3. Based on the standard deviation






4. 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.






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






6. 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)






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






8. 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






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






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






11. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






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






14. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






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






17. Stages all happen in the same sequence






18. 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






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






20. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






25. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






27. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






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






30. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






31. Age 4 to 5 years; during this stage the child beings to learn language ; see alot of exploration from the child ; this initiative to explore will be encouraged if the child doesnt feel guilty






32. 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






33. More confident and more outgoing






34. 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






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

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






37. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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






42. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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)






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






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






49. 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






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