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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






2. Where is this new experience causes a change in an existing scheme ; child may have to modify this scheme (ex: john lenon's child adding a new idea of what a court is )






3. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






4. 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






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 effective teaching takes place in the _____






7. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






8. 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)






9. 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






10. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






18. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






20. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else






30. Being able to realize that properties can stay the same in spite of a change in appearance ; what he found from his study was children under the age of 6 said that there was more water in beaker 1 than beaker 3 (even though it was the same amount of






31. 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






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

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






34. What happened in the past






35. 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.






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






37. 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






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. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one






40. Young kids that talk to themselves






41. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes






42. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






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






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






45. 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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46. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






48. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






50. 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