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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Positive correlation
Preconventional morality
Identity diffusion
Standard score (derived score)
2. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Reversibility
3. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Frequency distribution
Experimental methods
Moral development
Accommodation
4. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Parallel play
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Piaget
Criticisms of Piaget
5. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Individual case study
Preconventional morality
Different types of tests and surverys
6. What are 5 different types of testing?
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Preoperational stage
Naturalistic observations
Parallel play
7. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Conservation
Formal operation stage
Critical period
Individual case study
8. 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
Clinical method
Norm reference test
Experimental methods
Hartshore and May
9. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?
Preoperational stage
Independent variable
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Stanine scores
10. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
Educational psychology
Testing
Sensorimotor stage
Psychoscoial moratorium
11. 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
Preoperational stage
Naturalistic observation
Early maturing girls
Moral development
12. 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
Conservation
Industry vs inferiority
Standardized scores
6 hour retardets
13. Piaget believes a child's moral reasoning is tied to their ________; because the 6 year old child has not mastered decentration yet so he can only focus on 1 thing at a time and he focused on the size of the stain so the child with the bigger stain w
Kohlberg
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Cognitive reasoning
Reversibility
14. 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
Conventional morality
Control variable
Identity vs role confusion
BITCH test
15. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence
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16. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Jane Mercer
Identity vs role confusion
4 times - successful suicide
Assimilation and accommodation
17. The sens of balance is known as ________________
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Reliability
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Individual case study
18. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
Standardized testing
Intelligence
Late maturing girls
6 hour retardets
19. Define intelligence
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Contributions of Piaget
Negative correlation
20. Young kids that talk to themselves
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Zone of Proximal Distance
Naturalistic observations
21. 1. some people feel as though he may have underestimated the ability of kids 2. he talked about there being 4 distinct stages of development 3. some critics focused too much on what children couldnt do rather than what they could do 4. some think t
Learned helplessness
Reversibility
Identity diffusion
Criticisms of Piaget
22. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Grade equivalency score
Laray Pee case
Reliability
Organization and adaptation
23. 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
Clinical method
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Preoperational stage
Identity vs role confusion
24. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance
Industry vs inferiority
Percentile score
Jane Mercer
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
25. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Correlation
Control variable
Think at different ages
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
26. 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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27. 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
Norm reference test
Assimilation
Adaptation
Universal
28. 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
Sandra bem
Educational psychology
Negative correlation
Experimental and control
29. 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
Adaptation
Beverly Fagot
Late maturing boys
Late maturing girls
30. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Hartshore and May
Universal
Control variable
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
31. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______
Conservation
Learned helplessness
Universal
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
32. 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
Clinical method
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Experimental and control
Contributions of Piaget
33. 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
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Identity foreclosure
Conservation
Erikson's criticisms
34. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
Standardized testing
4 times - successful suicide
Cognitive reasoning
1st year ; development of trust
35. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Beverly Fargot
Nature vs nurture
Beverly Fagot
Invariant
36. 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)
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Parpain
Accommodation
Late maturing boys
37. Stages all happen in the same sequence
Naturalistic observations
Kohlberg
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Invariant
38. 1. there was no proof 2. his emphasis on identity crisis may have been from his own experiences in his life and he may have incorporated into a theory for everyone
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39. 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
Reversibility
Kohlberg
Stanine scores
Concrete-operational stage
40. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority
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41. 20 and on up if it happens at all; only a small proportion of adults get to this level; these peoplea re able to understand the moral principles behind the rules of society
Experimental methods
Post conventional morality
1st year ; development of trust
Concrete-operational stage
42. Most psychologists believe that intelligence is due to ___ ____; you cant prove which one is more or if they equal but they both play a role
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Nature vs nurture
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Lorenz - imprinting
43. 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
Naturalistic observations
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Pase vs Hannon
Double blind study
44. 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
Standard score (derived score)
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Vygotsky beliefs
Hartshore and May
45. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
Sandra bem
Naturalistic observation
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
46. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Identity achievement
Assimilation
Jean Block
Parallel play
47. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______
Sensorimotor stage
Stages
4 times - successful suicide
Early and late maturation
48. 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
Emotional intelligence
Post conventional morality
Preoperational stage
Frequency distribution
49. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Preoperational stage
James Marcia
50. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Egocentric thinking
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Language
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati