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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






3. _____ had a huge impact on






4. 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






5. 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






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






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


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






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






10. 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






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






12. What are 5 different types of testing?






13. 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)






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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)






20. 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






21. 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)


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






23. The sens of balance is known as ________________






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. Define intelligence






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






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






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






31. Based on the standard deviation






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






33. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






35. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






36. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






37. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






38. 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






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






40. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






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






43. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






45. 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






46. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






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






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






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