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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






3. 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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






11. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






13. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






14. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. What happened in the past






20. 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






21. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






22. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






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


25. What are the two types of adaptation?






26. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






27. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________






28. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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.






36. More confident and more outgoing






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. _____ had a huge impact on






46. Define intelligence






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






48. Based on the standard deviation






49. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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