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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores






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






3. What are 5 different types of testing?






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

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5. Young kids that talk to themselves






6. What happened in the past






7. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






14. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






16. 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






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






18. Are the scores repeatable?






19. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






20. 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)






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






22. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class






29. 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)

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30. 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






31. 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






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

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33. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Define intelligence






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






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






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






41. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






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

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






46. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes






47. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






49. 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






50. Factor being manipulated in experimental group